Linwood Barclay Quotes

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

Linwood Barclay

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ExperienceYourselfPeopleFeelYou

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

Joan Didion

WorldDriveDoingYouPlaceKnow

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

Max von Sydow

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What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

John Hodgman

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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

Amber Tamblyn

GoodGood NightNightThinkFriday

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

Stephen Hopkins

WorkPeopleOutThingsWellSync

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Stockard Channing

CharacterYouPlayWantCommit

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.

Mona Eltahawy

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I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

Mimi Kennedy

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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Julia Cameron

GoodBestEnoughNothingWorstTry

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Diane Johnson

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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

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My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

Bridget Moynahan

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