Michael Leunig Quotes

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Michael Leunig

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StoryEnvironmentYouKnowImportant

In the past, I travelled with 'The Hero and the Crown' by Robin McKinley: I suffer from a fear of flying, and I felt a bit safer knowing I carried the book and characters with me.

Jesmyn Ward

FearHeroPastMeBookFlying

I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter.

Joel Parkinson

WaterMindColdYouMatterMean

I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

Jenny McCarthy

VegasGoOutGetLikeMuch

When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.

Amy Klobuchar

StoryYouLookBackFindOut

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Robert Barany

ThoughtsFactsWayInterpretation

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.

Ruth Rendell

LadyWantOldOld LadyWriter

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

Romain Duris

AttitudeHateBeginningI CanFame

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Roz Chast

PeopleShoppingFightingFeelGo

I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

Michel Faber

CommunityInternetHarvestQuestion

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

Michael Robotham

LiveImaginationPeopleMePerson

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.

Jude Law

GreatMomentMenMeFeelLook

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

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