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Marilyn French Quotes

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 21, 1929 - May 2, 2009

Topics

Great Water Wine Books Everybody

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

Disappointment Finding Gay Out Older

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

I Am Thoughts Remember Back Go Know

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

Path Game Design Career Down Gaming

You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.

Work Best Celebrate You Go Want

I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.

Good Writing Speak Wine Enjoy Kind

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Together Because Paragraph Much Very

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

Life Work Experience Differences

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Life Man Happy Important Will Whole

On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it.

People You Want Independent Anything

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

I Am Looking Buzz Am

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

Life Day Words End Of The Day End

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Life Worth You Say Living First

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