Lisa Jewell Quotes
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.
Lisa Jewell
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
Oscar de la Renta
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
Queen Rania of Jordan
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
Edmund White
Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
Dan Gilbert
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Laura Dern
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden
We have to look honestly at ourselves and recognize the positives, the negatives, and the challenges we can overcome.
Brandon Victor Dixon
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. Priestley
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
Carly Simon
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.
Lisa Jewell
