Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. Forester -
I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
Barbara Palvin -
I don't want to be a bust.
Malik Jackson -
We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
Uma Thurman -
I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Patrick Ness -
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I'm only a human being.
Wayne Rooney -
Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
Taylor Swift -
Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
Karen Salmansohn
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
Irvine Welsh -
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Owen Arthur -
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
J. M. Coetzee -
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
Lars von Trier -
I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
Tawni O'Dell -
how beautiful is the universewhen something digestible meetswith an eager digestionhow sweet the embracewhen atom rushes to the armsof waiting atom
Don Marquis
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I love that "Big Little Lies" is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.
Nicole Kidman -
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
Scott McNealy -
I'm not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I'll try to express instead is, 'What we're going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women's bodies. So I want them framed as though they're bursting out of the panel borders.'
Kelly Sue DeConnick -
'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.
Claudia Gray -
Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
Ambrose Bierce