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Julian Barnes Quotes

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 19, 1946

Topics

Speak Important Us The Most Important

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

Melissa Rosenberg

Mind Moon Writing World You Know

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

John Paul DeJoria

Morning Job School Brother Cards

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Communication Great Up Inventions

I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Love Faith Energy Know Call Stems

I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.

Myself Value Me Find Serious Young

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

Morning Myself See I See Pretty Too

Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor.

Waiting People Me Push Someone You

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.

Speak Find Done Office Out Anything

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Men World Long Temple Never Serve

I know people don't think I work.

Work People Think Know

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

Good Training School You Drama Left

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life World Career Never Over Years

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