Ishmael Reed Quotes
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.Ishmael Reed
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West -
I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.
Felix Hernandez -
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
Kate Christensen -
Food can change anything.
Laura Esquivel -
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
Flannery O'Connor -
I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
J. A. Konrath -
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
Maggie Smith -
I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
La India -
I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
Paris Hilton -
Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
Damian Lewis
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I'd never discuss anything confidential.
Pam Bondi -
I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.
Rafael Palmeiro -
I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
J. B. Smoove -
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie Robinson -
All anything takes, really, is confidence.
Rachel Ward -
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
Eddie Redmayne
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
Rachel Kushner -
'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.
Cara Santana -
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper -
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
Ishmael Reed