Anthony Doerr Quotes
We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
Anthony Doerr
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
Sam Kean
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
Women need to double and triple men to demonstrate their experience and qualifications.
Katie McGinty
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
Anthony Doerr
