Maureen Hamlet Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn't in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die. — Alice Oseman

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land. — Maureen Johnson

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. — Arthur Koestler

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. — Simon Schama

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists. — Robert Benchley

Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into. — Susan Sarandon

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people. — Paulo Coelho

Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods. — Daniel J. Rice

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form ... — Martin Buber

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Your childhood friends are the ones you should hang on to. They know you in a way that nobody else does. — Morgan Matson