People Quotes

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

Paul G. Tremblay
- Book
- Talking
- Arguing
People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

Rex W. Tillerson
- People
- Threat
- Regimes

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

Seth Godin
- People
- Matter
I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories.

Alison Sweeney
- People
- Free
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

Northrop Frye
- Writing
- Desire
- Mean
You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

Confucius
- People
- Understand
- Force
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

Jhumpa Lahiri
- Remember
- Together
- Father
You want to have the experience. As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. You got on a film sometimes and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not. We're good at saying what other people have written, but for the majority of it, that's about it, comedians aside. It's all in the writing. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.

Wes Bentley