Tim Pratt Quotes

Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.

Tim Pratt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 12, 1976

Topics

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The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.

Joe R. Lansdale

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'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Joe Bastianich

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'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.

Jenny Zhang

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The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

Ander Crenshaw

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The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

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I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

Tom Hollander

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We need a military strategy to defeat terrorists on the ground.

Michael McCaul

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I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

Miriam Margolyes

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From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.

Logan Green

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If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

Jonathan Frid

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Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.

Dina Powell

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I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.

Courteney Cox

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