Dickster Mensch Quotes & Sayings

Here's what I haven't told you: Once before, in — Jodi Picoult

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. — A.S. Byatt

New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962. — Bill Maher

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried. — Rob Schneider

You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed. — Chris Matakas

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. — Coco Austin

Think about laughing and laugh about thinking. — Steve Higgins

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal. — Tyler Perry

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. — Siri Hustvedt

Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers. — William Shatner

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. — Sarah Silverman

My mother is changing history. She is making her balalaika-smashing mother into a heroine. Does she want me to do the same for her? Is that what good children do for their parents? What about good writers? — Gary Shteyngart

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. — Ken Robinson

The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order to perceive ourselves accurately, are worthy and welcome. If you don't feel worthy and welcome, you really won't know what to do with yourself. You won't know how to behave in a world of other people. You won't think you deserve to get what you need. — Jean Liedloff

That's the thing with women's movies - there's so much about kind of catfighting. And my experience is women aren't - look, we all get in fights with people, but it's not that face-to-face aggression. — Paul Feig