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Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned t...
BETSY BRANDT There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filter...
SUSAN BARKER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON![]()
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
HARLAN COBEN There is absolutely no connection between the accidents. They are all completely different events, w...
MIKE BAIR![]()
In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is ...
NENE LEAKES I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
RICK MERCER Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol...
DR. JOHN Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE![]()
I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.
GERI HALLIWELL I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of...
YOUNG JEEZY When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. T...
CARL HAGELIN My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficul...
FLORENCE HENDERSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
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You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It&#...
ALICE EVE The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawli...
ALEXI ZENTNER![]()
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, the...
ALAN LIGHTMAN![]()
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of ...
ALEX BERENSON![]()
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica...
THE WEEKND My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experienc...
FRED DURST![]()
To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
HENRY ROLLINS One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never ...
DAKOTA FANNING Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these we...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things a...
DAMON GALGUT![]()
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take som...
EDMUND WHITE Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lem...
LUANNE RICE![]()
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' m...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ...
KEN FOLLETT![]()
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the cur...
CARL HIAASEN![]()
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN![]()
I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because...
SUSAN WIGGS![]()
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't e...
RYAN MCGINLEY![]()
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an elemen...
CARL HIAASEN![]()
The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactl...
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'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my ...
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I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is ta...
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
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IMOGEN POOTS![]()
All of my novels are democracies.
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IRIS JOHANSEN The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty hum...
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Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because...
JOHN RIDLEY![]()
It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different catego...
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joi...
A. S. BYATT My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK![]()
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,...
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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
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I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I...
JO NESBO I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life bro...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT I've been watching Michael J. Fox since I was a toddler, basically. I watched all the 'Back ...
JULIETTE GOGLIA I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and c...
ALAINA HUFFMAN![]()
Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.
JILLIAN MICHAELS![]()
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonis...
ORHAN PAMUK![]()
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying,...
SHANE SMITH![]()
I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
IRA SACHS All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
NATALIA MAKAROVA![]()
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT![]()
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understan...
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It wasn’t me,” Lars supplied, from the front seat. “I didn’t tell.”
“Of course it ...
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I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend...
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
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The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward i...
HENRI NOUWEN I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' ...
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the...
GEOFF DYER I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is...
CRAIG FAIRBRASS![]()
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA![]()
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA![]()
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA![]()
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA![]()
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA![]()
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA![]()
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA![]()
Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for ex...
WERNER HERZOG It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change fr...
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something abou...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER They're an outstanding team and there is a reason that they are seeded No. 2.
LANA TOMLIN We believe that some maybe are still under the wreckage here, and the special units of the army are ...
EHUD OLMERT![]()
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
AMBER TAMBLYN My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people f...
LAURIE GRAHAM
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned t...
BETSY BRANDT There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filter...
SUSAN BARKER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. HARLAN COBEN There is absolutely no connection between the accidents. They are all completely different events, w...
MIKE BAIR
In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is ... NENE LEAKES I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
RICK MERCER Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol...
DR. JOHN Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE
I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life. GERI HALLIWELL I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of...
YOUNG JEEZY When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. T...
CARL HAGELIN My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficul...
FLORENCE HENDERSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It&#...
ALICE EVE The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawli...
ALEXI ZENTNER
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, the... ALAN LIGHTMAN
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of ... ALEX BERENSON
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica... THE WEEKND My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experienc...
FRED DURST
To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. HENRY ROLLINS One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never ...
DAKOTA FANNING Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these we...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things a...
DAMON GALGUT
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take som... EDMUND WHITE Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lem...
LUANNE RICE
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' m... EDMUND WHITE
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ... KEN FOLLETT
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the cur... CARL HIAASEN
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN
I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because... SUSAN WIGGS
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't e... RYAN MCGINLEY
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an elemen... CARL HIAASEN
The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactl... CATHY GUISEWITE
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my ... GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is ta... JACK CANFIELD
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
FINN WITTROCK I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white an...
IMOGEN POOTS
All of my novels are democracies. AMOS OZ I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ...
IRIS JOHANSEN The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty hum...
T. C. BOYLE
Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because... JOHN RIDLEY
It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different catego... STEVE AOKI
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joi... A. S. BYATT My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,... NANCY MARCHAND
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. MICHAEL ONDAATJE
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I... JO NESBO I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life bro...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT I've been watching Michael J. Fox since I was a toddler, basically. I watched all the 'Back ...
JULIETTE GOGLIA I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and c...
ALAINA HUFFMAN
Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say. JILLIAN MICHAELS
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonis... ORHAN PAMUK
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying,... SHANE SMITH
I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. IRA SACHS All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
NATALIA MAKAROVA
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan... WENDELL BERRY The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understan... DELTA GOODREM
It wasn’t me,” Lars supplied, from the front seat. “I didn’t tell.” “Of course it ...
MEG CABOT
I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. GORE VIDAL
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend... EMMA THOMPSON
There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters. COURTENEY COX I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime no...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves. RALPH W. SOCKMAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward i... HENRI NOUWEN I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' ...
LESLEY ANN WARREN
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo... TOM PETTY I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the...
GEOFF DYER I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is...
CRAIG FAIRBRASS
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA
Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for ex... WERNER HERZOG It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change fr...
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something abou...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER They're an outstanding team and there is a reason that they are seeded No. 2.
LANA TOMLIN We believe that some maybe are still under the wreckage here, and the special units of the army are ...
EHUD OLMERT
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real. AMBER TAMBLYN My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people f...
LAURIE GRAHAM
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 
I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&... 
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se... 
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Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. 
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. 
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on! 
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and... 
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. 
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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo... 
It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar... 
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N... 
I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's... 
It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl... 
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than... 
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca... 
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his... 
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle... 
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. 
Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. 
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Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... 
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t... 
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. 
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o... 
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l... 
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. 
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... 
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... 
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... 
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. 
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... 
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. 
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... 
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... 
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... 
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... 
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari... 
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... 
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm... 
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho... 
Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ... 
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo... 
I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. 
I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy... 
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ... 
I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like... 
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ... 
Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ... 
I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr... 
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th... 
The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation. 
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both... 
The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor... 
I see tendencies, I see body language. 
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not on... 