Ryan North Quotes

My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.

Ryan North

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: October 20, 1980

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The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'

Andrew Clements

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My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up.

Maye Musk

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The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Michael J. Massimino

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Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have a better life.

Tracy McMillan

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If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.

Mike Posner

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The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.

Mike Singletary

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When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

Julia Leigh

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After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

Josh Malerman

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I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

Diana Krall

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I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.

Chris Sacca

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Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.

Brandon Webb

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