Sophie Kinsella I adore all Agatha Christie’s books and turn to them whenever I’m ill or need cheering up. – Sophie Kinsella Adore Quotes Agatha Quotes Books Quotes Cheering Quotes Christies Quotes When I wrote my first book, ‘The Tennis Party’, my overriding concern was that I didn’t write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, ‘Look, I’m not just writing about my life, I’m a real author.’ I’ve never written a children’s book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, ‘Children’s books?’ Maybe it’s something about my face.
Jess Weixler In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase – I was surfing four days a week. I’m still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling. – Jess Weixler
Jason Jones Real life doesn’t exist on a network television comedy. They just don’t let you travel down any road that is presumably ‘dark.’ – Jason Jones
Kaui Hart Hemmings I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that’s what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
Stewart Butterfield I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time. – Stewart Butterfield
Steve Hanke If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don’t allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that’s 35% of all the world’s oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world. – Steve Hanke
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