Jolijn Dedoyard Quotes & Sayings

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

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for. — Marilynne Robinson

These were encrypted. They'll think they're absolutely safe. (Andre)
'Yeah, and he was three feet tall and green.' (Steele) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is no necessity to preserver with undesirable situations; make what is into what it can be. — Steven Redhead

No," said Jacob, "I don't mean to say that this life is just a party, any kind of party. It is a wedding, the most important kind of party, full of joy, fear, hope, and ignorance. And at this party there are enough places and parts for everyone, and if no one can play every part, yet everyone can come to the party, everyone can come to the wedding feast, and anyone who does not know that he is at a wedding feast just does not see what is in front of him. He might as well be dead if he does not know that the world is a wedding. — Delmore Schwartz

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels! — John Irving

One of the joys about acting is researching. — William Sanderson

One day a man of the people said to Zen Master Ikkyu: "Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?" Ikkyu immediately took his brush and wrote the word "Attention." "Is that all?" asked the man. "Will you not add something more?" Ikkyu then wrote twice running: "Attention. Attention." "Well," remarked the man rather irritably, "I really don't see much depth or subtlety in what you have just written." Then Ikkyu wrote the same word three times running: "Attention. Attention. Attention." Half angered, the man demanded: "What does that word 'Attention' mean anyway?" And Ikkyu answered gently: "Attention means attention."11 — Roshi P. Kapleau

I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point? — Zach Braff

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. — Mohammed Aldouri

Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives!! — Lil' Wayne

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. — George Orwell

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way. — Craig Gillespie