Rick Yancey Quotes
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
Rick Yancey
Quotes to Explore
I like to have something to base a role on.
Sam Heughan
If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
Edmund Hillary
It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
Jaclyn Smith
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.
Vijender Singh
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
W. P. Kinsella
I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
Barry Zito
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
Aaron Koblin
Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
Dana Goodyear
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
Harold Pinter
There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
Cameron Bright
My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.
Nathaniel Fick
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
Ursula Burns
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
Hannah Kent
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
Rick Yancey
