Projansky North Quotes & Sayings

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds. — Aimee Carter

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested
intrigued even
by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. — Kate Morton

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds. — Arthur Melvin Okun

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. — Tucker Max

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? — Antonio Damasio

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive. — Tallulah Bankhead

Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."
"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."
"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too. — Lee Goldberg

Gross. Feminists everywhere are outraged. If I were wearing a bra under this shirt, it'd be burning. — Lauren Michelle Smith

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it. — James Spader

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect. — Karen Horney

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow. — Erica Jong

Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth. — Frank Beddor

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me. — Romola Garai