Michelle Paver Quotes

I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.

Michelle Paver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 7, 1960

Topics

LovedYoungThreeFirstHeroesNext

The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

Amber Le Bon

LifeWeekKnowWillNeverNext

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

Sigrid Nunez

TimeExperienceLosingMemoryLose

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

Troy Carter

BusinessOpportunityCultureNobody

I've created the life I wanted.

Chris Gardner

LifeWantedCreated

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

Conrad Veidt

FatherDayMeRegretDeepHurt

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

Bruce Springsteen

YouFindCreateShowAnewNightly

I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I never, ever skip yoga. I use it to calm down and slow down.

April Gornik

CalmSlowDownSayNeverCalm Down

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

Sylvia Plath

MyselfDisciplinePurposeEgoStory

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Thundercat

HumorYouFindThingsTerribleEven

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

Lynn Coady

CharacterMeConflictFundamentals

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Linda Vester

SurvivalEasyYouSometimesSeeGet

YouTube did more for me than 'America's Got Talent.'

Lindsey Stirling

TalentMeAmericaMoreYouTubeGot

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