Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Catherine Jinks Quotes

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Catherine Jinks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1963

Topics

Age Ideas Young Write Get Teenagers

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.

Future World Problems Grow Solution

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

War People Think You Say More

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

Hobby You Take Your Soon Profession

Talk about the issues that matter most to people.

People Matter Talk Most Issues

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

Positive Good Children Parents Think

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Time Walk Words Me Stop Write

Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.

Monica Bellucci

Work Small You Done Sometimes Want

I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

Luca Guadagnino

Beauty Hate Concept Overrated Sake

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

Diane Setterfield

Life Ambition Reading You Down Up

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Violence Want Kind Just Lot Thing

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Grow Push You Back Know Want

So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.

Together People Movies Two Pretty

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Catherine Jinks