Graham Joyce I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. – Graham Joyce Contours Quotes Crescents Quotes Professional Quotes Time Quotes Troughs Quotes Writer Quotes Fantasy gets a mixed reception – a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle. Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of ‘fairy’ is imported as a delicate spice.
Demetri Martin I started being a comedy fan when I was, I’m going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old. – Demetri Martin
Jonathan Majors There’s an anecdote that’s really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop. – Jonathan Majors
Bonnie Hammer When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn’t, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn’t like. USA was predictable; it was boring. – Bonnie Hammer
PoliticsThomas Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley
BeautyMarriageMoneyWilliam Penn In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. – William Penn
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