John Lescroart Quotes

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

John Lescroart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1948

Topics

SuccessHistoryShortEarlyFirst

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

GreatPeopleInterestingFindPlay

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.

Meir Kahane

ChangeGovernmentRiseKnowSeeUp

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

John Lewis

MorningGreatWallsEnoughYouOut

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Robert Hass

WritingProcessDiscoveryIncessant

That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

Jeff MacNelly

PerspectiveTogetherLaughYouKnow

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Robert Frost

BusinessMoneyPoorTalkWriteUs

How do you walk from one place to another? What makes you want to walk someplace? Any place that you want to get out of your car and walk is a good place by definition.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

GoodCarWalkYouPlaceWant

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

Jared Harris

YouFeelingsPersonSayPlaying

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

Devon Cajuste

EyesWorldOutBeingYourStanford

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

William Labov

TimeFindMoreUnitedSharpClear

If I was asked to do a film that was just trying to sell a political point of view or religious point of view, I wouldn't do that because that's a bad script.

Tim Matheson

ViewPoliticalPoint Of ViewBad

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Richard P. Feynman

MeProblemBecomeRealDefineSure

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