Julian Green
Related ROMAN PAYNE An author's characters do what he wants them to do. W. E. B. GRIFFIN Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count. EYTAN ROCKAWAY MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA JOHN RUSKIN DOUGLAS COUPLAND C. JOYBELL C. GRAHAM GREENE BRYAN BURROUGH JOSEPH CONRAD JEFF NICHOLS Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the Book, taking only the frail good of t... QURAN What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN MITCH ALBOM KATE CHRISTENSEN DEYTH BANGER SAM HARRIS JOSEPH CONRAD DOUGLAS COUPLAND Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more th... CHIRAG TULSIANI I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... CLIVE CUSSLER JONATHAN MILLER We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the l... C.K. WEBB JOYCE CAROL OATES My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She write... SADIE JONES If there are five people in custody there, that fact is not in and of itself significant. If we retu... FRANK SCAFIDI TREY PARKER ORIANA FALLACI D.W. GRIFFITH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What is life? - A novel. Who is the author? - Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep... and sleep... NIKOLAY KARAMZIN LLOYD ALEXANDER GERMANY KENT The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN Who is the writer here? YOU ARE. Whose book is it? YOUR BOOK. There are no writing police. No one is... RACHEL AARON Life is a testing ground from which we are Judged from in our passing, it is the things that we do i... GARY F EVANS... FREDERICK BUECHNER GENA SHOWALTER ALBERT EINSTEIN That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the... ADAM LANGER All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ... SANELA RAMIC JURICH SALMAN RUSHDIE JEANETTE WINTERSON Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we... WYLIE DUFRESNE RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? Wha... JAMES D. MAXON D.H. LAWRENCE For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a... RUMER GODDEN He does not want a girl who trifles with Christianity. He wants a woman who is radically given to Ch... LESLIE LUDY JEANETTE WINTERSON SALMAN RUSHDIE AUGUSTUS HARE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH CHINUA ACHEBE It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills.... MICHAEL O'BRIEN Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. EUGENE O'NEILL JANINE BENYUS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ALLEGRA GOODMAN PETER JACKSON ERIN HUNTER ERIN HUNTER We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No... PATRICIA B. MCCONNELL 'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elekt... CHARLES SOULE P. G. WODEHOUSE JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES DEYTH BANGER MARKUS ZUSAK BRIAN BLESSED The idea in this gospel is that Jesus, like all of us, is a trapped spirit, who is trapped in a mate... BART EHRMAN PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE STEPHEN KING In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, ho... NISAMI Life is a book, you are the author. Learn to write the book before your mistakes and you shall have ... ALEX RJ SARANPA When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ... ALEXI ZENTNER HENRI NOUWEN You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to... GREG BERLANTI What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. PAT BARKER KEVIN NEALON CECELIA AHERN Who says paper worldsERIN HANSON G. K. CHESTERTON G.K. CHESTERTON GILBERT K. CHESTERTON OSWALD CHAMBERS Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters t... PAUL HAGGIS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. CRESSIDA COWELL LIL WAYNE GRANT MORRISON ALAIN DE BOTTON ANONYMOUS ANAïS NIN ANAIS NIN
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JULIAN BOND JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN CLARY JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel... JULIAN FELLOWES JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN BARNES When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we tal... JULIAN CASABLANCAS I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings br... PERCY JULIAN JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN CASTRO I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Penns... PERCY JULIAN JULIAN BAGGINI JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN BARNES JULIAN LENNON JULIAN ASSANGE Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision. 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An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers. 
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n... 
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and w... 
The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we... 
We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adole... 
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A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? 
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The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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You're a throwback."
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that 
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