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
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
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
Gary Hamel
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
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
Leonardo DiCaprio
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
Olivia Culpo
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
