Jonathan Stroud Quotes

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Jonathan Stroud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1970

Topics

LifeYourselfTalkingYouNeedRoom

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

Joe Trohman

TechnologyMindMeThinkFeelKid

I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

Amor Towles

AgeEyesMyselfMeThinkSomeone

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

Steve Brown

BusinessMusicMoneyFunFirst

Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.

Stephen Vincent Benet

LoveWomenArtWifeYouTrouble

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Simon Baker

LoveGoodSameSuccessfulWould

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Tom Robbins

EndIdeologyUltimateTotalitarianism

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

Ron Carlson

CollegeFeelYouFirstDifficulties

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

Ron Perlman

ProfessionalActorYearsBeenAlmost

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

Martin Van Buren

LawLimitsWillWithinServant

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

Michelle Bachelet

FearLeaderWomenLiveCityWorld

For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the person, because the person is the podcast. So I think that's why podcasters take it to heart. It's a very personal form of media, probably the most personal form of media.

Chris Hardwick

HeartPeopleFashionThinkMedia

When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.

Brendan Sexton III

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