Erik Larson Quotes
To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.Erik Larson
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
Rand Paul -
I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
Olivia Thirlby -
America is huge.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli -
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
Samantha Stosur
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey -
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon -
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
Sally Struthers -
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth -
History will treat me right.
Ralph Abernathy
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono -
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
Kate Voegele -
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden -
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Oscar Wilde
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
Paul Theroux -
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
Pearl S. Buck -
Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he's a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.
Peter Noone -
No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.
Elif Batuman -
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.
Danielle Trussoni -
To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.
Erik Larson