Blandings Bridgeport Quotes & Sayings

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. — Garth Risk Hallberg

What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page. — Fierce Dolan

Even as an actor, when you have a kissing scene it's still weird. — Jennifer Lopez

The guy just stood there. Hello. There're zombies everywhere. Try looking behind you, douche canoe. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage. — Mark Lawrence

Smiles show fullness of a joyful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I once banged out a story in Peshawar, Pakistan, while eating a chicken salad sandwich, as demonstrators shouted their displeasure of all things American in the glow of burning flags and some steel-edged radials. I was told, by well-meaning people, that I should tell the angry crowds that I was, in fact, Canadian.
I just looked at them.
How in the world do you pretend to be from Calgary, when you talk like me?
I thought briefly, I would say I was from Alabama, and hope they didn't know exactly where that was, but I am pretty sure that, if I had, someone would answer back:
"Roll Tide. — Rick Bragg