Melody Carlson Quotes

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

Melody Carlson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1956

Topics

ChallengeMeWritingThinkEnjoy

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

Jo Nesbo

BusinessTimeEconomicsFinancial

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

John Grant

LifeFearPeopleMeThinkProcess

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

Jennifer Aniston

LifeChildrenMy LifeSaidWantDid

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

John Major

ConflictBritishWellFieldSuperb

I've shown I have the ability to reduce spending, I've shown I have the ability to reduce onerous regulations, and I've shown that I have the ability to fight for and restore our privacy and our personal freedoms.

Matt Rosendale

FightPrivacyPersonalAbilityOur

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Jeff Kinney

FeelMoralHandOutAdultHeavy

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

John Updike

SeriousOthersMoreLovelySeem

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick

ThoughtWritten

There's a lot of possibility in the 'Pacific Rim' universe for additional stories to be told, whether that's additional graphic novels or animated series or video games or movie sequels.

Travis Beacham

Video GamesUniverseGamesStories

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

CorruptEverybodyThemselvesExcept

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

Rivers Cuomo

ChangeMusicJobYouthListening

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

Michiko Kakutani

TruthPowerSpringTruth IsOutGet

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