Jean Craighead George Quotes

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

Jean Craighead George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1919 - May 15, 2012

Topics

WritingLovedBecauseWellDidKept

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MomentGratefulMeWinningBook

When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's big or small.

Michael Connelly

TimeSmallYouNeedMidnightBig

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

GodWisdomHumbleGratefulTalent

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

John Piper

PowerLittleBigGiveHeartsSouls

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

Stephen Marley

MusicI AmWorldKnowMusicianAm

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Steven Adler

SportsKissGoFirstOverPark

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

Sloane Crosley

MeThinkGrowNewGrow UpUp

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Tony Parsons

I AmSweetToughnessOldThroughAm

The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

Ron Eglash

SuccessPowerDemocracyGoogleFirst

Cory Monteith was a great guy; Funny, deep, thoughtful, and hardworking. In real life, he was the coolest dude, generous, and a great friend to his pals.

Mike O'Malley

LifeFunnyFriendGreatDeepReal

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Mohsin Hamid

ArtMoneyPoliticsReligionWriting

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

Dick Van Dyke

AirPrettyAmsterdamGotStuckOnce

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