Pagliuca Harvard Quotes & Sayings

Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble.
And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers. — Sergei Dovlatov

Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation. — Bria Guishard

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that. — Kate Bernheimer

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free. — Gary Ross

Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves. — Van Jones

There are no rules in survival. — Mary E. Pearson

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. — Yahoo Serious

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace. — Patrick Ness