Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.
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I suppress the vast majority of what I write.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
