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Brad Stone Quotes

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1971

Topics

Character Moments Matter Strive Hard

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.

Me Think You Gay Know Say

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

Book Year Say Write Month Would

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'

Life Simple My Life Boots Look Down

In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.

Passion Best Impossible Movies Way

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

Stephenie Meyer

Life Step Me Reading Think Loved

I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity.

Food People Birds Sick Selfish Down

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Walk People Me Uncomfortable Stairs

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Love Gossip Hunting Antique Half

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Trying Never Fashionable

I think you do need two terms as a president.

Chelsea Handler

Think You President Need Two Terms

Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

Christopher Atkins

Water Story Loved Always Tell Might

The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

Time Grateful I Am Me Doing Award

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