Rainbowfish Red Quotes & Sayings

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure. — Anais Nin

There is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun. — Gish Jen

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals. — Matthew Scully

I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me. — A. L. Kennedy

To be noble, ... was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth. — Gail Tsukiyama

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character. — Mia Wasikowska

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. — Jesse Owens

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child. — Tea Leoni

Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time. — Willard Van Orman Quine

I guess you'd have to say that sometimes the audience is smarter than the critics. — Toby Emmerich

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all. — Sean Connery