John Phillips Marquand Quotes

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1893 - July 16, 1960

Topics

LifeLiveTimePastWritingPresent

I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates.

Jodie Whittaker

ThinkChristmasOutHangWould

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

FriendsBecomeAwardsDustGather

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

John Cena

DayLaughClockOutBeenAble

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Anatole France

ManAnimalWorstHimOutRational

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Amos Oz

ArtReadingSlowRecommend

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Sting

WritingYouLivingWriteAnything

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

NatureAdversityCharacterStruggle

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

Mike Pence

FamilyGoodHomeMomNameBuild

The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.

Michelle Alexander

JusticeImpossibleDiscrimination

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

Miroslav Lajcak

ChallengesWorldCountryMeetMore

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

Julia Hartz

TryingYouAlwaysLittleIndustry

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

Jolene Blalock

PeopleThinkSexSymbolReallyKirk

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