Eleanor Catton Quotes
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
Eleanor Catton
Quotes to Explore
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
Karin Slaughter
Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
Vanessa Marcil
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
Dan Fogler
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
Valerie June
Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
Finn Jones
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda Amichai
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig
I like to show that I'm real.
Maluma
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
Sam Harris
I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
Malik Bendjelloul
I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
Imtiaz Ali
