Frederick Forsyth Quotes

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

Frederick Forsyth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 25, 1938

Topics

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My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Jennifer Weiner

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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

John Crowley

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The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life?

Rudy Vallee

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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Mohsin Hamid

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I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Louis MacNeice

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I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.

Jason Marsden

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Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Chris Hadfield

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Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

Christine Baranski

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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

William Glasser

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The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.

Peggy Whitson

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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Lenny Abrahamson

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