Eindreflectie Quotes & Sayings

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now. — Alex Tabarrok

I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit. — Nancy Farmer

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in. — Jeff Kinney

Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to the torch. — Saadat Hasan Manto

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me! — Miriam Makeba

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. — Albert Maltz

No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you. — Widad Akreyi

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up. — Celia Rivenbark

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness, — Janet Malcolm

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive. — David E. Kelley

The particular way he had of structuring his paragraphs, beginning and ending each with a joke that wasn't really a joke, but an insult cloaked in a silken cape. — Hanya Yanagihara

You have heard of beautiful young ladies falling in love at first sight, and have thought it natural enough. But a housemaid out of a reformatory, with a plain face and a deformed shoulder, falling in love, at first sight, with a gentleman who comes on a visit to her mistress's house, match me that, in the way of an absurdity, out of any story-book in Christendom, if you can! I — Wilkie Collins

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer! — Barbara Johnson