Andrew Motion Quotes

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Andrew Motion

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Tone can be as important as text.

Ed Koch
- Important
- Text
- Tone
Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

Gary Johnson
- World
- Better
- Tomorrow
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

E. O. Wilson
- Writing
- Think
- Nonfiction
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

Adam McKay
- Truth
- America
- Broken
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Up
- Time
- Work
Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

Gail Simmons
- Fun
- Food
- Style