Simon Winchester Quotes

So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 28, 1944

Topics

CharacterSciencePeopleResearch

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

Jo Brand

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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Joan Didion

LifePeopleThinkSome PeopleLead

I was afraid that if I said, 'Yes, I'm an actor,' what would happen if I was bad at it?

Meghann Fahy

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Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

John Oliver

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.

Robert Hilburn

WorkFriendshipPeopleMeYouNever

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

Jean Paul Gaultier

ClothesSayShyWayAlwaysBecause

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

John Yoo

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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sparky Anderson

FutureLivePastPeoplePresent

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Tom T. Hall

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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

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Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Mary Astor

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