Elizabeth George Quotes

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

Elizabeth George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 26, 1949

Topics

PassionArtDisciplineWritingCraft

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Jerry Spinelli

BestWritingChanceCareStandYou

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

Johannes Rau

SuccessCreativityJoyRiseWill

I just really like it when things are earnest.

Jenny Slate

ThingsJustLikeEarnestReally

Sometimes I even work out to 'Glee' songs to keep me going.

Jenna Ushkowitz

WorkMeSometimesOutKeepGoing

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

Jennifer Aniston

UncomfortableDisasterInvolvedDate

I am not a professional politician.

John Delaney

I AmProfessionalPoliticianAm

You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'

John Leguizamo

ThinkYouDoneMoreRealizeMuch

If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

Robert J. Sawyer

YouLookCountryPrettyUnitedMost

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

Matthew Henry

GoldGoWillOutComeWorse

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Sue Monk Kidd

HeartScienceMindStoryWolfYou

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

Robert Blair

PainfulReturnRemembranceHowJoys

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and sub-nuclear world. Physicists then had greater clout than other scientists because the memory of their role in the Second World War was fresh in people's minds.

Martin Rees

TogetherWarMemoryPeopleResearch

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