Maisons Bonneville Quotes & Sayings

Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas, justly abandoned projects, embarrassing first thoughts. It needn't be so: first thoughts are often best, cheeringly rehabilitated by third thoughts after they've been loured at by seconds. Besides, an idea isn't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test. The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time — Julian Barnes

Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would. — Judi Dench

Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well ... it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life. — Anupam Kher

If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start! — Paul Weller

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them. — Jean Zimmerman

They tried to shoot my ... Rowan through the heart. — Sarah J. Maas

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. — T. S. Eliot