Jane Lindskold Quotes
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'Jane Lindskold
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
Olivia De Havilland -
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams -
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
Idris Elba -
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung -
You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
Dan Marino
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel -
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
M. J. Rose -
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
D. J. Cotrona -
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
Karen Joy Fowler -
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
Salman Rushdie -
Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
Damien Chazelle
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor -
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter -
I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.
Abby Wambach -
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
Damon Galgut -
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock -
Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
Irvine Welsh
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Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
Kyle Chandler -
There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.
Rachel Griffiths -
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Kabir -
I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.
Sara Paxton -
I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
Eddie Redmayne -
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
Jane Lindskold