Eleanor Catton Quotes
The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.
Eleanor Catton
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
Sam Yagan
When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
Nat Wolff
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
Bahman Ghobadi
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
J. Maarten Troost
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
Who is the architect? I am the architect.
Jeff Rich
The Climax Blues Band
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.
Jandy Nelson
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
Kary Mullis
Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.
Ferid Murad
People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.
Jason Mitchell
The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.
Eleanor Catton