Jonathan Stroud Quotes

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!

Jonathan Stroud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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MoneyWifeMeWritingStartYear

I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.

Joel Parkinson

MePotentialPartyAchievingChances

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeHopeI AmWorldDeadSee

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

Michael Franti

CommunityThinkHollywoodMoreRight

A lot of companies lock up for a few weeks once a year for performance reviews. But there's a way to collect feedback in real time from Slack so that by the end of the year, you've already stored up all of this information.

Stewart Butterfield

TimePerformanceEndYearYouWay

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Shirley Manson

MusicPeopleFamousWantBelieving

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 love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

Dierks Bentley

LoveMusicPushTryRightLittle

What unfortunately happens is we have about... 350 million interactions with consumers a year, between phone calls and truck calls. It may be over 400 million, and that doesn't count any online interactions, which I think is over a billion. You get one-tenth of one-percent bad experience, that's a lot of people - unacceptable.

Brian L. Roberts

ExperiencePeopleTruckThinkYear

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Brigham Young

FreedomIndependenceDoingTrueOnly

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

Arthur Phillips

BusinessWritingStartEndWorry

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

Peter Porter

RelationshipWordsPicturesKind

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

Scott Walker

BusinessSayMeanOpenWisconsin

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