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Matthew Pearl Quotes

Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Time Food Find Place Square Books

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

You Too Much Want Try Whatever Much

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

Style Writing World Book Tough Born

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Work Dreams Thought Never Well

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

Time Better Duck Learn Trying Lost

If I can transport audiences for the three or four hours they're at the opera, to make them forget all of their worries, the bills they have to pay and all that, then I've done my job. That, for me, is very gratifying.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Job Me I Can Done Forget Three

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.

Down Washington Office Field Later

Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Life Goals Best Yourself Start You

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Age Time Old Age Man Child Husband

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

Love Fit He Either About Does

I like statement earrings.

Deepika Padukone

Earrings Statement Like

It's happened so quickly, starting at Tottenham, playing for England.

Starting Playing England Happened

I could definitely make 145. But if 'Cowboy' is going to 145, I'm going after somebody who matters.

Matters Cowboy Going Somebody Who

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