Ruth Ware Quotes

If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

Ruth Ware

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FamilyMyselfAngryWritingDown

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

Amy Bloom

LifeHistoryJobI AmPeopleStory

You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don't want to live in regret. I don't want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, 'Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?'

Troy Dumais

LoveLiveTimeRegretDoingEnjoy

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

PeopleMeWayBeyondChoirStage

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

TodayArchitectureTomorrowYesterday

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

Jason Mewes

GetSoonHopingAgent

I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK.

Courtney A. Kemp

I AmPeopleColorWhiteSayWrite

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Arianna Huffington

AloneGameChanceClassBecome

I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, 'Why me?'

Winnie Harlow

StarsMeWindowRememberSkinGo

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

Martin McGuinness

FocusedWelfareGoingAdministration

I think L.A. actors don't have much continuity, so you kind of have to force the issue by doing plays and putting up scenes and staying in class.

Mark Pellegrino

ThinkDoingYouKindClassUp

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Gwen Moore

WomenExperienceAmericanViolence

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

Henry Rollins

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