Emily Gould Quotes

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

Emily Gould

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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Try
  • Aim
  • Jerusalem

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Energy
  • Result
  • Aim

• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Point
  • Aim

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Fiction
  • Own
  • My Own

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Face
  • Fiction

• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Science
  • Fiction

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Motivational
  • Aim
  • Mark

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Aim
  • Brevity
  • Jargon

• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Someone
  • Aim

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • New
  • Read
  • Fiction

• The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Destroy
  • Aim
  • Israel

• 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Idea
  • Fiction

• I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Fiction
  • Written
  • Fantasy

• I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Poetry
  • Story
  • Fiction

• Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Friends
  • Change
  • Wish

• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sea
  • Face
  • Loves

• Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Bill Clinton
  • Peanut farmer
  • Democratic president

• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Fiction
  • Aim
  • Distinction