Scarlett Thomas Quotes
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.Scarlett Thomas
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
B. J. Novak -
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
Nancy Gibbs -
We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
Aaron Brown -
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
Jack Lowden -
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
Nathan Kress
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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 -
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
Illeana Douglas -
The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
T. C. Boyle -
My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
Hamish Bowles -
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
E. O. Wilson -
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Pat Conroy
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The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Albert Einstein -
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
Cameron Crowe -
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
Ziggy Marley -
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
Ziggy Marley -
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
Andre Bazin
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
Sherman Alexie -
Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.
Joanne Rowling -
Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.
Rick Pitino -
I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
Stephanie Young Hwang -
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust - it's a horrible history. And if you look at the Palestinian world, victimized by every entity in the Middle East, they were massacred in every country. I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is this fear of genocide.
Etgar Keret -
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
Scarlett Thomas