Alice RipleyTeen As a teen, ‘Thunder Road’ was always in my head. – Alice Ripley Head Quotes Road Quotes Teen Quotes Thunder Quotes My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted ‘90210.’ And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while. I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Alan Arkin You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you’re gonna take and which waves you’re not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory. – Alan Arkin
Lowell Bergman What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There’s very few restrictions in that way. – Lowell Bergman
CommunicationJohn Stones I’m a defender first and foremost – blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn’t really get recognised. – John Stones
Eddy Merckx The day when I start a race without intending to win it, I won’t be able to look at myself in the mirror. – Eddy Merckx
Leigh Bardugo I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different. – Leigh Bardugo
Karan Mahajan By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I’d been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it – and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work? – Karan Mahajan
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