David Farland Quotes

Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

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• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Players

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Unique

• Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Soul
  • English
  • Funk

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Movie
  • You
  • Happen

• The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Help
  • Economy
  • Economics

• The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Want
  • Government
  • Goal

• By generalization of methods developed by Kamefuchi, O'Raifeartaigh, and Salam, conditions for renormalizability of general gauge theories of massive vector mesons are derived. ... It is shown that all theories based on simple Lie groups (with the one exception of the neutral vector meson theory in interaction with a conserved current) are unrenormalizable.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Simple

• If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Power
  • Single

• Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • High
  • Honor
  • Sky

• The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • God

• Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

  

  James Gray

• Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Good
  • Long
  • Character

• Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

  

  Bonnie Friedman
  • People
  • Read
  • Experiences

• We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

  

  Martin Luther

• Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

  

  David Farland
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Writing