Kenneth Oppel Quotes

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Kenneth Oppel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 31, 1967

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FoodMeTreatLovedThreeWrite

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Joanna Newsom

GreatEnoughLongPlayKidPiano

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

John Lithgow

ServiceTogetherSchoolCrazySmall

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

John Searles

LifeLiveCharacterWorldTryReal

Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

Steve Erickson

BeachMeThoughtSomeoneCastleMay

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.

Steve Albini

QualityFashionThinkFallWillOut

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

Stephen Baldwin

GodThinkPlaceSayKingdomGoing

Hollywood, young or otherwise, is a very trend-driven town, and that can get a little out of hand at times. I just try to stay true to my own personal taste - incorporating my personality while not taking myself too seriously.

Skylar Astin

MyselfPersonalityYoungPersonal

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

DeadAlwaysOriginalityWriter

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.

Tom Watson

GoodLiveBeautifulFootballGame

By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeBrainWorldThinkingLearnNew

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeSoulConnectionPersonWithin

I really consider acting a high art.

Miles Teller

ArtActingHighConsiderReally

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