When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.
Geraldine McCaughrean
Related If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. TERRI MINSKY I think he's as close as I could possibly imagine, ... But it's still a strange feeling. At first it... FRANKIE VALLI Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn... BARBARA MERTZ The whole scene is very strange. It's a very strange town and a very strange business, and it has a ... BEN MCKENZIE It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice yo... RITA WILLIAMS-GARCIA I have a very strange feeling of loss. I almost feel as though one of my family members has gone, BILLY GRAHAM It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE This whole scene is very strange. It's a very strange town and a very strange business, and it has a... BENJAMIN MCKENZIE It's very strange to drive through. You come back here, and people think it's been rebuilt. ANDRA TURNER Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the... DANIELLE STEEL One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if yo... ELMER BERNSTEIN It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. KENNETH BRANAGH Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters w... TINA FEY It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place CORNELIA FUNKE I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watch... DANA SCHUTZ On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space ... LYNN JOHNSTON It is really strange, but very exciting. DANIEL RADCLIFFE Formula One is a strange world but if you have clear values, you can maintain the separation between... FERNANDO ALONSO It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entir... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come ... TODD RUNDGREN It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in... CHRIS BELL There is a story told of one old wise man, whose name was Mencius. He was a follower of Confucius an... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH This first component is going to look very strange and it is going to drive a little strange. JASON NUTT One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w... DAMON KNIGHT She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exa... KEITH JARRETT My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy ... VIN DIESEL It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the qui... ANURAG SHOURIE It's a strange feeling to see one's books come up at auction and also, to some extent, a sign of my ... IAN RANKIN A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious dra... MARY AUGUSTA WARD How strange! When people borrow money, they bow to you and when you collect it, you have to bow to t... VIKRANT PARSAI When women get too skinny, like Teri Hatcher, it will show on your face and age you. I think women l... TERI HATCHER Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou... BRAM STOKER It was a strange feeling on the sideline. It was a strange deal. You mix in a couple three-and-outs ... KIRK FERENTZ Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books ARAVIND ADIGA Jealousy Is a strange but dark emotion eating at your very inner self if we let it, it will eventual... GARY F EVANS... One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it. J.P. DELANEY Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! HEYWOOD BROUN Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! HEYWOOD C. BROUN When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your si... GISELE BUNDCHEN My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. JOHN SEARLES It may seem strange to foreigners, but young people in France are very concerned about unemployment. BRUNO JEANBART Either way, the lyrics are very effective in creating sort of this strange gothic atmosphere, where ... RICK MASON If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People... MARGARET ATWOOD Both very, very talented and physical enough to handle anything. It gives you the luxury to be able ... HOUSTON NUTT When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a ... HEATHER O'NEILL It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever... SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is A Strange thing..
There is a time come when you loss your faith,
Love,
Mind,
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Every... DINACE KUMAR C It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that... DAN ANDRIANO If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many s... BRIAN ENO One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange re... STELLAN SKARSGARD Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a pa... KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just ... ZAYN MALIK It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve... HELENA MATTSSON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Its strange how people choose you and when you come to choose them ,they cant accept that OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people ... AZAR NAFISI On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world ... EDWIDGE DANTICAT People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it... AIDAN GILLEN One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come acr... JACK ANTONOFF In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to ... PHIL KLAY I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it... ROBERT DE NIRO I inadvertently had a very high dose of environmental transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) when c... STEVEN MAGEE That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in s... NOEL COWARD You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, '... JUDE DEVERAUX As strange as it may seem, human bodies are transportation devices. You came out of your mother's bo... ED BULEY Love is a strange feeling where you lose control of yourself and yet feel blissful about it. APOORVE DUBEY “Think of life as a drama and you have your own characters in it. If you think positive, you will ... ADNAN MIRZA Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what w... OSHO One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what res... SALMAN RUSHDIE If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if th... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz ... ROBIN LEACH When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same toke... LAUREN BACALL I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me. KASEY CHAMBERS A sweet slip of a girl like you, why should you have to know anything about the sorrow of the world?... CLIVE BARKER It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that on... GREGORY BENFORD Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they'r... CLAIRE TOMALIN But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near. W. H. DAVIES I'm going for sound really, and my fingers just go places. It's very, very strange, especially when ... JAMIE CULLUM You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you... ANN COULTER If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something di... JESSYE NORMAN My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It'... EMILIA FOX You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir... CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir... CHARLES E. POPPLESTONE When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Ot... OMAR AHMAD The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to ... PAULA HAWKINS Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time. RANSOM RIGGS I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not... HENRY JAMES But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You ... SARAH DESSEN I think it's very flattering. I feel very lucky to have people talking about Formula One and to pote... DANICA PATRICK You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss ... AZAR NAFISI Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw you... STEPHEN KING It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange pla... MICHAEL GRANT It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help ... WALID MUALLEM Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is no... JAMES FREY There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as ... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being a... J.K. ROWLING
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