Mary Balogh Quotes

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

Mary Balogh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: March 24, 1944

Topics

SuccessWritingBookPlanYearBack

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Jessica Simpson

LifeMeMy LifeSomeoneTryingYou

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

Johann Lamont

PoliticsPeopleColleaguesThinkTwo

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

Mauro Ranallo

WorkAliveWithout

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

John Trudell

DayWritingWorldMadOne DayNever

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Steve Yzerman

LongBackWayKidLong WayGoing

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

Simon Sinek

CareAmericanMattersWal-MartAbout

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

Trisha Yearwood

HairMakeupCameraNobodyWhoFront

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

Ron Reagan

ChildrenParentsStandWayMinds

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

Jose Padilha

TimeCoolActionYouAccomplish

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

Dominic Monaghan

ThinkWayEveryoneGeekSome

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

Dick Van Patten

TruthFoodPetMarketingPrinciples

If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.

Chris Evans

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