Daniel Handler My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction. – Daniel Handler Agent Quotes Fiction Quotes Finally Quotes Interim Quotes Literary Quotes Money Quotes Negotiated Quotes Rejected Quotes Sell Quotes Sold Quotes Times Quotes I didn’t like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child’s head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family. I can cook anything.
Ari Lennox My dad would always play Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Anita Baker, so I fell in love with them. I would try to make my voice sound like theirs. – Ari Lennox
Asia Kate Dillon While I acknowledge that it’s not my whiteness that has given me my platform entirely… it’s part of the reason I’ve garnered so much acceptance and praise for being out and nonbinary. – Asia Kate Dillon
Om Puri I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me. – Om Puri
Leighton Meester I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, ‘I really want to be part of that,’ but not realizing what that was. – Leighton Meester
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