Tracy Chevalier Quotes

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

Tracy Chevalier

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • History
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Nature
  • Fact
  • Miracles

• Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Horror

• If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Power
  • My Life

• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • American
  • College
  • Military

• Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Women
  • Live
  • Step

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Thought

• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Actor
  • Looking

• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Culture
  • Progress

• God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Mind
  • Light

• You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Union
  • Negroes

• Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Newspapers

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

  

  Jonathan Evison
  • Blessed
  • Optimistic

• You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Country

• So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading