Joan Of Arcadia Adam Quotes & Sayings

Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways. — Rose Tremain

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. — Ambrose Bierce

You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath. — Zakk Wylde

I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about. — Winona Ryder

We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water; don't you think it is also affecting you? Maybe you cannot quantify that effect along with zillions of other effects, but certainly you are being affected. — Bryan Kest

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that. — Anna Netrebko

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell. — Henry Reed

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be. — Lois Duncan

It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost. — Jeremy Page

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit — George R R Martin