Rick Bass Quotes

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

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• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • Period

• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Reality

• I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Man

• Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • First
  • Poem

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • People
  • Me
  • Seeing

• I don't feel famous.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Feel
  • Famous

• Vegas is kind of crazy because there's so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Vegas

• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Will

• Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Help
  • Science

• I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Life
  • Man
  • Reading

• Whenever an angel says 'Be not afraid!' you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Angel

• I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • War
  • Hands

• I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.

  

  Josh Mandel
  • Care
  • Background
  • Represent

• The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Story

• It's a day to remember. It seems to me (to be) the natural continuation, after much thought.

  

  Adriano Galliani
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Natural

• A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Should
  • Natural
  • Forgotten

• I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Natural
  • Definitely
  • Novelist