My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My favorite part was meeting the author. She is one of my favorite authors, and I liked the book, so... CAROLINE LELAND [FAVORITE BOOK/AUTHOR:] Pride and Prejudice ... I like that period of literature and I like the snap... JANE AUSTIN It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another boo... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I alw... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the... ADAM LANGER 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to... KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin... GENE WILDER My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. MEG CABOT My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean. NINA ARIANDA When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. PHARRELL WILLIAMS I think ever since I started to read, there have been favorite novels for different stages of my lif... ROBIN HOBB I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. Wi... JUSTIN WETCH I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place ... JACK NICKLAUS Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ... AMY PLUM I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, b... GARY PAULSEN My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask p... KATE MICUCCI The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see so... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment. CAROLINE B. COONEY One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with... JAMIE DORNAN When my phone chimes with a text message on Monday morning, I'm still in that dreamy state between s... JESSICA BRODY My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became T... AMY TAN I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the ... EVANGELINE LILLY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard ... GABOUREY SIDIBE My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country. SCOTTY MCCREERY I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - al... J. AUGUST RICHARDS My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statemen... FRANCINE RIVERS No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they impro... ROSECRANS BALDWIN There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I hav... VINCE LOMBARDI My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird... JORDIN SPARKS My favorite place to be is in dreams whatever that means. SAL PALLADINO I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved wo... DENIS VILLENEUVE When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be intere... EMMA THOMPSON My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of ... BRAD THOR I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual... LIN YUTANG When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put... NEIL GAIMAN When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the l... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD I miss being taught by a teacher, but I must tell you I’m guided by a charming conductor, who dire... YAMIN RASHEED Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favo... CHRISTINA AGUILERA War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure... THOMAS MANN A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book.... BRYAN BURROUGH 'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characte... EVA MENDES I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time. RAINBOW ROWELL I read a lot this week but my favorite character that does not appears very much but has a nig part ... DAV PILKEY My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco... SLOANE STEPHENS George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. DOLLY PARTON Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to... CHRIS WOOD The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a... TOM RACHMAN When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after
the works of the author who has wri... JOSEPH ADDISON I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kin... BILLY GARDELL My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend... CRAIG GROESCHEL Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes. GINNIFER GOODWIN One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. BRIT MARLING I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite ... TOBIN BELL Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time... JAMES ROLLINS Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not pres... ROBERT BENCHLEY Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the... ISMAIL KADARE What are the things I want to do for my family, myself and my favorite charity. DEBBIE GARVIN My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streaml... STEVE BREEN A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspira... VINCENT BUGLIOSI Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. B... COREY TAYLOR I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was... DAMON LINDELOF I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b... FRANCINE PASCAL When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f... MADISON PETTIS Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension... STEVE ERICKSON I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is d... SARAH ZETTEL My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab. PHARRELL WILLIAMS Rom-coms have been one of my favorite genres of movies since I can remember. My favorite movie of al... KUMAIL NANJIANI I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and ... CHRIS KIRKPATRICK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Whenever I am sad I go to my favorite place... the fridge. ANONYMOUS My favorite part of the party is when the party is over. When I don't feel obligated to have a good ... DREW MAGARY It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I wa... GEORGE PORTER Honestly, I don’t know if I have a favorite,” he emphasizes the word. “I like a lot of differe... J. SAMAN My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several... STEVEN WRIGHT Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, l... CASPER VAN DIEN Another favorite activity is realizing moments in my past when I unlearned
something that changed th... BENJAMIN L. STEWART I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also lik... HALEY JOEL OSMENT We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the b... LLOYD ALEXANDER I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza... BEYONCE KNOWLES We let them choose their favorite author, read a passage and talk about the format they used, their ... ROBYN ROGERS I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy... ALESSIA CARA This is why playoffs are great. This has always been my favorite time of the year. DANTON COLE
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I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in th... AMY TAN Saving Fish From Drowning AMY TAN Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of a... AMY TAN Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sa... AMY TAN Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from th... AMY TAN I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, ... AMY TAN People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's di... AMY TAN Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. Th... AMY TAN When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outs... AMY TAN I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sen... AMY TAN There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end u... AMY TAN My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs sh... AMY TAN My breakfast is usually a wholegrain cereal or porridge, with walnuts sprinkled in it, berries, a ta... AMY TAN I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way. AMY TAN I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be o... AMY TAN No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... AMY TAN Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. AMY TAN You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know. AMY TAN I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a... AMY TAN I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried ... AMY TAN My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense o... AMY TAN Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we'... AMY TAN The name startled me, AMY TAN I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. AMY TAN Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm nu... AMY TAN That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. AMY TAN I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I h... AMY TAN Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. AMY TAN What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two peop... AMY TAN No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social real... AMY TAN Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out... AMY TAN Almost every month we have 20 to 30 patients needing a recovery room. AMY TAN A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin. AMY TAN If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I ha... AMY TAN Chaos is the penance for leisure. AMY TAN That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurti... AMY TAN We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in... AMY TAN I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ... AMY TAN What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. ... AMY TAN What is the past but what we choose to remember? AMY TAN After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? AMY TAN Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. AMY TAN Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing d... AMY TAN I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest di... AMY TAN Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play che... AMY TAN My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianis... AMY TAN I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard... AMY TAN He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because ... AMY TAN I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten sec... AMY TAN For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never h... AMY TAN But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become li... AMY TAN [Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long know... AMY TAN old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them. AMY TAN Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How ... AMY TAN I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It's chi... AMY TAN And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the d... AMY TAN He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes. AMY TAN I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It... AMY TAN To keep false hopes is to prolong misery. AMY TAN Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and hel... AMY TAN Fate changes when you change your clothes. AMY TAN Teddy once told me that it's natural that we feel alone, and that's because our hearts are different... AMY TAN And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusation... AMY TAN Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He pra... AMY TAN wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her... AMY TAN But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong. AMY TAN We listened patiently to Lester, words skittering out of his mouth like cartoon dogs on fresh-waxed ... AMY TAN I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that's happened? You need complete tru... AMY TAN Now that our marriage is over, I know what love is. It's a trick on the brain, the adrenal glands re... AMY TAN I think about our marriage. The weft of our seventeen years together was so easily torn apart. Our l... AMY TAN The next world is 'segregated'? You can go to the World of Yin only if you're Chinese?" "No-no!... AMY TAN as to our hopes, our dreams, our secret desires, we couldn't talk about those. They were to vague, t... AMY TAN I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul... AMY TAN I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise... AMY TAN Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak... AMY TAN And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untet... AMY TAN I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul... AMY TAN Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you ... AMY TAN I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishin... AMY TAN A few times I invited Ba to visit me from the World of Yin. But other yin friends tell me he is stuc... AMY TAN Being able to restrain my emotions isn’t a great victory—it’s the pitiful proof of lost love. AMY TAN . . .the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, ... AMY TAN It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But l... AMY TAN When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can ... AMY TAN It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't wan... AMY TAN Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it... AMY TAN too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. AMY TAN I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out o... AMY TAN I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. AMY TAN But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo AMY TAN But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beg... AMY TAN The gnarled pine, I would have said, touch it. This is China. Horticulturalists around the world hav... AMY TAN The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more. TAN LE I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement. TAN LE ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, comput... TAN LE You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmen... TAN LE I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not ... TAN LE Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist. VINCENT TAN Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece o... TONY TAN One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because ... VINCENT TAN I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate,... ANDREW TAN Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred wit... GARRY TAN Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come... GARRY TAN Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thin... GARRY TAN The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts hav... SHAUN TAN First and foremost it's the size, the market cap of these Chinese companies. The magic number here i... ALEX TAN It can be grueling at times because you have to be meticulous about everything. ALEX TAN Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clea... ALEX TAN It's good to have a country like New Zealand which is seen as safe, sophisticated, no real issues, u... ALEX TAN Smile when it hurts most. ALEX TAN I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency i... TONY TAN Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the succe... LUCIO TAN Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share researc... TAN LE Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket. SHAUN TAN Singapore is a natural gateway for international firms looking to access Asia and for Asian business... TONY TAN In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese c... VINCENT TAN The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative ac... SHAUN TAN It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something ... TAN LE You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a ma... VINCENT TAN Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment. SHAUN TAN To ensure that Singaporeans can take advantage of opportunities, the government should continue to m... TONY TAN Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda. TAN MALAKA I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there ... SHAUN TAN I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the de... TONY TAN Di mana pun dia berada. Dan kuharap dia tahu bahwa selama aku masih bernafas, aku akan selalu mencin... ILANA TAN Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimite... VINCENT TAN Fire can benefit, but also destroy. Media will corrupt but will also inform. Food is needed, yet it ... MARYALLE TAN Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail. SHAUN TAN I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me. ANDREW TAN We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and m... VINCENT TAN I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in t... VINCENT TAN Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine com... ANDREW TAN There are people in my life who give me comfort when the going gets tough, as it invariably does. I ... ALEX TAN Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first... TONY TAN The objective of the plan is to give more flexibility to banks to provide services to their clients ... ROGER TAN Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure scie... SHAUN TAN The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing i... SHAUN TAN By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would... SHAUN TAN Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where pati... TONY TAN I was surprised to find that the queen is actually a very friendly person. I felt very relaxed aroun... ALVINA TAN Massage is very important for relaxing. ANDREW TAN One day she felt weak and was admitted but the doctors found nothing wrong with her. Still, she was ... ANDREW TAN I picked this theme because children nowadays don't play such games anymore. I want to highlight to ... ALVINA TAN One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models. ANDREW TAN The start of the repatriation season is slow, as some 15 Afghan families comprising about 75 individ... VIVIAN TAN I've been in other close games, but not in one with a shot like Andrew's. BENJI TAN We got a little over excited at times. I can't ask for any more effort. They really played hard. BENJI TAN The textbook is kind of more bland. STEPHANIE TAN I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people ... VINCENT TAN We missed far too many chances and gave away soft goals in the match. We will now complete the class... WALLACE TAN Effort and consistency are the foundation to success. MARYALLE TAN ARM's partnership with Grace is an important addition to our continued commitment and support for ou... JUN TAN We spend our lives trying to find, this abstract being that we can call “mine”. We lose ourselve... MARYALLE TAN My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th... SHAUN TAN Over and over again, like clockwork, we see the human race present a remarkable talent all throughou... MARYALLE TAN Have you ever wondered why Cinderella's stepmother was bitter and greedy? Have you ever wondered why... MARYALLE TAN Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at th... TONY TAN There's still a very positive yield story for Indonesia. There's been strong buying of bonds and tha... CATHERINE TAN We have developed our own approach towards rehabilitating people, involving psychological rehabilita... TONY TAN The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better out... TONY TAN I think now we are simply strangers with some memories. TAN REDDING Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity. ANDREW TAN Together, they read on his papers a survey of the most common words found in suicide notes and mass ... SIHAN TAN You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to... SHAUN TAN It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audi... SHAUN TAN Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? W... SHAUN TAN Our definition of VIP is not as big as in Macau. But for us, they are VIPs even if they don't sp... ANDREW TAN I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones a... SHAUN TAN