Thomas Harris Quotes

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

Thomas Harris

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• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Doing

• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Fall
  • Place
  • Warm

• I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Book
  • First Amendment

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Want

• You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Today

• Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Book
  • Think
  • Author

• I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Remember
  • Government
  • First

• I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Pure

• The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Long
  • Book
  • Power

• My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• Ideas are the source of all things.

  

  Plato
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • All Things

• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • American
  • Freedom

• Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Dresses
  • Someday

• Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading