Henning Mankell Quotes

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

Henning Mankell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: February 3, 1948 - October 5, 2015

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ChildrenMeReachProblemYouKnow

One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.

Joe Mantello

StandQuestionsAskDirectorGet

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

Jim Crace

LifeWritingRetireRetiring

I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.

Jerry Lewis

FeetNowTallFiveFourSix

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other.

John Krasinski

ThinkGrowLearnMomentsKnowUp

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Merrill Markoe

LiveYourselfMagicYouGoneJust

I'm not saying Michael Moore's smarter than Sean Hannity, but Michael Moore is better at running interviews than Hannity, even though Hannity's running the interview!

Steven Crowder

SayingBetterInterviewInterviews

The demand for entertainment is insatiable.

Roberto Civita

EntertainmentDemandInsatiable

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

Ruby Dee

DieNationOffSentYouths

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

Rupert Graves

GoodPersonalityMeYouCreateOut

Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.

Mary Beard

ThinkingUncomfortableYouLookMean

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

Jean Craighead George

LoveChildrenWillWriteBecause

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Dee Dee Myers

FailureWomenGenderProblemLong

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