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Tim O'Brien Quotes

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 1, 1946

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Failure Focus Imagination Talk Than

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Jessie Cave

Confidence I Am People Me Trying Am

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Robert J. Flaherty

Looking Saying You Find Go Out

Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

Rod Rosenstein

Power Decision President Director

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

Romany Malco

Time Traveled Paris Over Europe

My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.

Liu Wen

Sky Blue Sun City Trees Hometown

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

Lois Lowry

People Know Young Say First Adult

If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don't sit there and talk about why you got it because of the pressure.

Debra Winger

Pressure You Want Why Talk Sit

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Dean Koontz

Change Mind Wrong Say Will Head

If I were to say I'm looking for treasure, people would come up with the money. When I say I'm looking for a historic wreck, they're not interested.

Clive Cussler

Money People Looking Treasure Say

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

Anne Graham Lotz

Life Change God Time Man Brother

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

William Whipple

Fear Great Think Satisfaction Never

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

Picture You Discovery Ready Create