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Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

Melissa Rosenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 28, 1962

Topics

World I Can Know Kind Storytelling

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Joel Kinnaman

Creativity Negative You New Done

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

John F. Kennedy

God History Together Man Economics

A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.

Andre Aciman

Age Writing Deep Wish Personal

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Robert Kennedy

Evil Dangerous Say They Say Cause

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mike Tyson

Character Me See Pathetic Some Sort

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Douglas Preston

Science Wrong Nothing About

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

Deborah Moggach

Life Time Rich Think Interesting

Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

Christian Louboutin

Service Yourself I Am People Artist

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

Colin Firth

You Go Want Wherever Rational Thing

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

William Temple

Happen Pray Coincidences

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

Phil McGraw

Time You Authority Relationships Get

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

Peter O'Toole

You Something Then Joyfully