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Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!

Geraldine McCaughrean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 6, 1951

Topics

Writing Reading End Better You Want

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

Right Person Ready Person Meet Right

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

Men Fantastic Concept

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

Women Men Ideas Think Look Clean

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

Writing Singing Guitar First Always

As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.

John Tyler Bonner

Better Understanding Biology Helpful

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

Women Men Smart Strong Matter How

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Me Start Someone Find Never Decide

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

Decision American Risk High Pass

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

Love Good Fashion Believe Clothes

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

History Focus People Saying Early

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Stars Everyone Out Make T Bit

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

Austin Grossman

Universe Create My Own Heroes Own

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