Anwsers Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V.S. Naipaul

You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world. — Anne Lamott

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Plum smiles, sighs, and shakes her head. 'No. You know, I thought Dan was a good guy. Maybe there are no good guys left. — Gemma Burgess

Sometimes people say a lot without really saying anything. — Sarah Dalton

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall. — Hortense Calisher

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. — Orhan Pamuk

The best revenge is a life well lived. — Chloe Neill

I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus. — Ann Voskamp

I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school. — Lake Bell