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John Mortimer Quotes

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 21, 1923 - January 16, 2009

Topics

Life Milk Somewhere Modern Yogurt

In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.

People Reading Story Remember You

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Mathematics Simple Problems Year You

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

Robert Rodriguez

Time Grow Wish Back Fast Go

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

People Someone Need Real Something

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.

Michael Foreman

People Done Up Teaching Illustration

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Dead Sinner Saint Edited Revised

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

Myself Kitchen Trying My Own Own

As a kid, my favorite book, up until 'X-Men,' was 'Avengers.' What does Captain America have? He has a shield. What does Thor have? He has a hammer. What does Hawkeye have? He has a bow and arrow. That's why Cable came with weapons. That's why Deadpool had swords and machine guns and pistols. It's like, let's weaponize these dudes.

Book America Why Captain Kid Hammer

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

Stubborn Problem Opinions Mouth Old

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.

Great Talk Policy Deal Issues State

Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.

Woman White Stop Nothing Become She

I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture.

I Am Me Kitchen Restaurant Miami Go

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