Blaine Pardoe Quotes
As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.
Quotes to Explore
-
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
-
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
-
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
-
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
-
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
-
I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
-
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
-
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
-
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
-
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
-
I'm not a great writer.
-
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
-
The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
-
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
-
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
-
What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
-
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
-
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
-
Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
-
I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.
-
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
-
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.
-
As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.
