Ayelet Waldman Quotes

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

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While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.

Jesmyn Ward

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You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

Jerry Moran

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I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

John Mackey

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In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

Michael Connelly

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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

John Woolman

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The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!

John Tyler

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In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.

Traci Bingham

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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Robert Collier

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No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

Rob Portman

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All the time, I'm watching relationships.

Julia Davis

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