Zoë Heller (Zoë Kate Hinde Heller) Quotes

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

Zoë Heller

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Feeling
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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
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• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Life
  • Grateful
  • Diabetes

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
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• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Mainstream
  • Then

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Women
  • Society
  • Stronger

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Always
  • Process
  • Uncertainty

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Woman
  • First
  • Step

• I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Company
  • Puppy

• Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Violence

• When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Band
  • Difficult

• One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Team
  • Enjoy

• I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Mistaken
  • Dummy
  • Ventriloquist

• The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Book
  • King
  • Stephen King

• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Writing

• I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book