Thomas Carlyle Quotes
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
Walter Jon Williams
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
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I never read about photography.
Sally Mann
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
Zadie Smith
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
Iggy Pop
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
L'Wren Scott
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
Karen Hesse
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
Hakan Nesser
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
Gaston Bachelard
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Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.
Mikey Way
My Chemical Romance
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What I hate most about this year's Turner Prize is how environmentally bad it is with all these videos, tv monitors, big soundscapes. The artists bang on about collectivity but with climate change they're selfish and reckless. Next year let's have a carbon neutral Turner Prize!
Waldemar Januszczak
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Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.
Danny Garcia
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle
