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Joan Lingard Quotes

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.

Joan Lingard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: April 23, 1932

Topics

Live Character City Find Place Both

The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Know Always Been Should Them Teams

I lost my head for a little while.

John Mayer

Lost Head Little While Little While

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Robert Mondavi

Life Food Quality Wine Three More

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

Ann Patchett

Technology World Stand Lose Know

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

John Updike

Love New York Body New Special Own

I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.

Stephen Moyer

Love Good God Back Say Dead

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

Steven Hatfill

Government You Want See Turn Break

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Love Husband Never Before Met Few

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Mary Karr

Daily Nap Emotional Like Higher

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.

Mike D

Daily Experience New Island Events

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Bryan Adams

People Think Now Want Way I Think

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Ashley Wagner

Skaters Superstitious