Len Deighton Quotes

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

Len Deighton

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BookInterestingWhyFirstAsking

Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.

Jo Cox

CultureHolidayClassGoingWorking

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Robert Lansing

ManMindMeLooking ForwardForward

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

Sue Kelly

WaterCountryNewClean WaterWill

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

Simon Cowell

SchoolThreeLeftQualificationsAny

I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.

Travis Scott

LearningBecomeWorkingStillWho

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

Tom Sturridge

FightWaitAmericanFeelSpecial

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Rod Steiger

LoveManVillainWrongBeing In Love

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Russell Smith

SchoolChurchImagineBetweenCross

The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

Christen Press

LifeAmericanSpeedYouLookKnow

Beach volleyball has taken me all around the world.

Brooke Sweat

BeachMeWorldVolleyballTaken

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.

William Golding

HumbleActionBookStoryChooseGo

I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason.

Suzi Quatro

LifeGoodQualityFeelSomeoneYou

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