Emma Donoghue It’s painful to consider anything but writing. – Emma Donoghue Painful Quotes Writing Quotes I’m not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature. I’m named after Jane Austen’s Emma, and I’ve always been able to relate to her. She’s strong, confident but quite tactless.
Alan Furst I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead. – Alan Furst
David Thewlis I’d had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time – a Lancashire girl. I thought: ‘It’s a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn’t I realize it?’ – David Thewlis
Deborah Norville I now find magic in the mundane. I’m also more creative – better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles. – Deborah Norville
Paul Heyman Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because she is such a pivotal figure in not only American sports but in global sports as well. – Paul Heyman
Mickey Drexler I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell. – Mickey Drexler
Chaz Bono I always had this idea that, ‘Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.’ But I wasn’t, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community. – Chaz Bono
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