Laurie Graham Quotes
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
-
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
-
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
-
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
-
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
-
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
-
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
-
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
-
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
-
Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
-
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
-
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
-
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
-
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
-
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
-
Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
-
New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.
-
I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.
-
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
