Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

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

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It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

Andy Biersack

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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

Robert Sheckley

HeartPeopleMeIdeasProblemGo

Depression is real, and that really hit me hard. I was going through a phase where I wasn't talking to no one. Only my son. Me and my son would do stuff, but I was talking to no one.

Max Holloway

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But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Jeffery Deaver

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Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

Michael C. Burgess

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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.

Alvaro Enrigue

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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan

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I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Don Cheadle

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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

Wole Soyinka

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Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Sharon Kay Penman

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I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.

Thomas Middleditch

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Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

Nushrat Bharucha

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