Eric Brown Quotes

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Eric Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: May 25, 1960

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I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

Jim Crace

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I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.

Joel Embiid

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The worst gift I have ever gotten on Christmas is going to see Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause.'

John Gourley

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Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

Meg Wolitzer

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

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Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

John Leo

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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

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It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve.

Tom Cotton

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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mary Harris Jones

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I personally think the best ideas for TV shows - at least comedies - are very low-fi ideas. High concepts often sell pitches in movies and TV, but, especially in TV when you're talking about hopefully a 100 or 150 episode proposition, those concepts just burn off, and then you're stuck with nothing.

Michael Schur

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I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.

Jasper Carrott

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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Ali Smith

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