Eleanor Catton Quotes
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
Quotes to Explore
-
People take things so seriously.
-
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
-
I've never been a partier.
-
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
-
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-
I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
-
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
-
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
-
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
-
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
-
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
-
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
-
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
-
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
-
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
-
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
-
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
-
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
-
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
-
First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.
-
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
-
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
