Simon Toyne Quotes

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

Simon Toyne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 29, 1968

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In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

Jesse Andrews

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People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

Joel Madden

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I feel healthy.

Jenn Suhr

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The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

John Fogerty

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Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Jeff Buckley

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From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

Jean M. Auel

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I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

Amy Adams

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It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

Ruth Ozeki

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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Matsuo Basho

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AllianceTexas is a cash machine for our public partners.

Ross Perot, Jr.

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I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

Martin Scorsese

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A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Luis Bunuel

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