Miriam Toews Quotes

The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.

Miriam Toews

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WavesThinkPlaceKnowLettersRock

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

Joan Collins

YourselfThinkYouAlwaysRoleUse

When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Jeremy Sumpter

WorldThoughtYouKnowKidUp

When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?

Matthew Desmond

TimePeopleStartToughEndYou

I love London and British women.

Matthew Morrison

LoveWomenLondonBritishI Love

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams

WomenChurchNeverBeingCome

The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.

Tom Scholz

MeLongYouSayWillDigital

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

Robert Crippen

AttentionYouDirtyLivingSleeping

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Rowan Williams

AgeCultureProblemsImpactAnxiety

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

Mick Fleetwood

ValueFriendsAlwaysNaturalBeen

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Mohsin Hamid

ExperienceI AmWriteMuchI Write

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Liz Phair

ThinkDesignMeanGetResponse

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Judith Viorst

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