Gail Honeyman Quotes

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

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• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  

  O. Henry
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Dollar

• I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Fiction

• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Individual
  • Industry

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Powerful
  • Moment
  • Stand

• When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Know
  • Chances

• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Friend
  • Purpose
  • Criticism

• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Mind
  • Real
  • High

• Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Necessarily

• You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Find
  • Irish
  • Jews

• Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Look

• There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • You
  • Limit

• I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Fear
  • Communism
  • Bear

• I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Well
  • Academic

• Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Myself
  • Child
  • Feet

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • More
  • Works
  • Arabic

• The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Style
  • Consistency

• We would not have invaded a country that did not attack us. We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families. We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Up
  • Live
  • Century

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• 'It's a gift!' he said. He was referring to his art, and also to the result; but he was using the word quite literally.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Art

• I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

  

  Gail Honeyman