Simon Toyne Quotes

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

Simon Toyne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryWritingBetterYouLiving

There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

John Frankenheimer

ControlProcessDoneNowMoreHard

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France

ManCuriosityVirtueGreatest

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

PeopleSucceedImpossibleFaceKnow

I'm just authentically, unapologetically myself. In and out of drag, in and out of the gig, in and out of the studio. My friends know. Miss Thing Over There wakes up 8 A.M. and she's on. The sun, the rain, the snow, whatever's going on outside, I'm ready.

Alyssa Edwards

SnowRainMyselfSunFriendsReady

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

Christina Aguilera

AwayStray

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Craig Charles

DieYouMove OnStagnantEvolve

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.

William T. Vollmann

WritingWorldInterestingEnjoyIdea

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Philip Johnson

ThinkBuildingsAlwaysSettings

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

Peter Dinklage

FantasyBookstorePartNovelsReally

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Peter Garrett

LifeYourselfYouWantYourSpend

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

Shia LaBeouf

FeelFriendsLostOverFaultHonest

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Sextus Propertius

LiveGodAloneMeBedGoddess

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