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Arthur Phillips Quotes

As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

Arthur Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1969

Topics

Work I Am Research Strong Sitting

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

Andrew Dost

Learning Together Think You Seeing

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.

Jeff Lindsay

Feelings

Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

Michael Hayden

Enemy Adapt Will Beyond Changes Us

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

Attitude Wisdom World Tolerance Dead

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

Lisa Tuttle

Think Thought Early Write Spy Going

It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.

Janette Rallison

Time Fun Reading Story Feel Enough

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin

Good Time Back Sometimes Hold Than

You can tell within a second of entering a bar if it's a place you should spend your time.

Jon Taffer

Time You Place Bar Within Tell

I'm constantly working towards my personal improvement.

Disha Patani

Improvement Personal Working Towards

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Chris Jordan

Culture Think American I Think

I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.

Chris Owen

Great Balance Comedy Enjoy Drama

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

Brad Garrett

Business Hope Great Time Myself Fun