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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b... FRANCINE PASCAL Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER
A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Mealtime
"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
MALLORY ORTBERG I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '... BILL BRYSON
TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the L...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu... ROBERT PINSKY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books ta... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - b...
WILL OLDHAM I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES 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
I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't wa... WILLIE AAMES Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capital...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son... BEN HOPKINS
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller qual... STEVE HARVEY Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
TRAVIS BARKER After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's ...
DARREN BOYD My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
JACK PRELUTSKY
Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S... GEORGE TAKEI To me, I'm sort of like Dorothy in 'The Wiz.' It kind of parallels my life. It's a s...
KENNY LEON I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you...
MAX WINKLER
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'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of question... LAURA MARLING That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know wha...
BIANCA KAJLICH Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of ...
BETH BRODERICK
I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I&#... TANC SADE
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me. BETHANY HAMILTON As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kin...
KARA HAYWARD I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more ...
HOLLY LISLE
A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'So... TREY PARKER My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a li...
KAREN GILLAN
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am... TIM CAHILL I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm o...
ROBERT CRAIS I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of r...
QUESTLOVE
Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christma... MICHAEL DIRDA
My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of ... BRAD THOR
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ... ELVIS PRESLEY Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE
It's interesting, but because I have my own collection, I actually almost never purchase jewelry... IVANKA TRUMP Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE 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 What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH
I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore wo... QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'...
TAJ MAHAL Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marg...
DINAW MENGESTU I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having ... AL SHARPTON When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be in...
JACK PRELUTSKY
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen... GEORGE PACKER Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo...
PAMELA DEAN When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I thi...
ERIC BRAEDEN
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I'v... GIORGOS SEFERIS
Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What'... AARON SORKIN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There ... DREW HOUSTON
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the... VIRGINIA WOOLF
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction wit... KILROY J. OLDSTER A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
GRANT ACHATZ
Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling d... KILROY J. OLDSTER I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses lik...
HELEN GEORGE
The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes... JAMES MCBRIDE
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time ... ISABEL ALLENDE
I take a lot of ladies' vitamins, because I never buy my own and that's what's in the ho... AKIVA SCHAFFER
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I... CHARLES DE GAULLE
I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. Ther... GINNIFER GOODWIN
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Mo... BILL GATES I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego...
ERIC HILL An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976....
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no... ANNE RICE My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a s...
JOHN BOYEGA
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... EDWARD WESTON
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. ... JAMES FRANCO
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and... BETHANY MCLEAN What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opp... JOYCE CAROL OATES
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL
National honor is the national property of the highest value. 
Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat... 
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m... 
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi... 
Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again. 
I really wasn't a class clown. 
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&... 
It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies. 
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha... 
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. 
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by... 
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? 
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling... 
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. 
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance. 
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,... 
In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If... 
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. 
But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner. 
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe... 
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated. 
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ... 
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,... 
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. 
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ... 
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t... 
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c... 
An actor should be judged by his performance only. 
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki... 
I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And... 
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why... 
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th... 
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... 
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,... 
No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ... 
I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#... 
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a... 
A man is literally what he thinks. 
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y... 
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. 
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ... 
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up... 
In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk... 
Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six... 
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ... 
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go... 
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ... 
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. 
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what... 
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.... 
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi... 
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ... 
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea... 
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. 
Love is what you've been through with somebody. 
Buy a book in brown paper 
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth... 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. 
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA. 
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ... 
All are equal 