Ridley Pearson Quotes

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Ridley Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 13, 1953

Topics

ThinkBodyThreeTwoFictionSeek

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Jewel

LifeHomeRedValueDressThink

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Andreas Capellanus

SeaWomanGoldGivingYouEarth

I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.

Maud Welzen

GoodBestWorldThinkCookiesLike

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Anna Deavere Smith

PowerPeopleMouthFindRightOut

I'm drawn to roles where someone has to struggle or fight.

Mia Goth

StruggleFightSomeoneWhereRoles

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

Aml Ameen

HopeCreateStorytellingSideFilm

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

Tony Judt

MoneyParentsThinkLondonMy Own

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Moby

PatiencePeopleIdeasWorldThink

I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

Louie Anderson

HeartWarmVegasSpotVery

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

Jojo Moyes

LifeFamilyPeopleStoryLife Story

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

Peter Camejo

MoreEuropeUnitedDemocraticLaws

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

TruthDownHurryWhoErrorsHunt

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