Ayelet Waldman Quotes

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SimpleIdeasYouKnowKindQuestion

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

Jimmy Connors

WomenRespectTreatWayI Was Raised

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson

CourageThinkNot KnowingDumbAsk

A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

Melissa Pritchard

LifeLoveLiveStoryResultYou

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

John M. Grunsfeld

HomeTeamForwardUniverseHelpNew

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

LifeBeautyGodChildrenMyself

Nutrition is 150 per cent of the bodybuilding formula. It's that important.

Ronnie Coleman

ImportantNutritionBodybuildingCent

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Rupert Sheldrake

PeopleResearchWritingVoiceDoing

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Michelle Gomez

PeopleDeepLaughWayFixQuick

Trump doesn't have a plan. There's a screw loose, and he's got a really short fuse. Do you really want the leader of the free world with his finger on the button to have a short fuse?

Michael Kelly

LeaderWorldFreeShortPlanYou

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Mitch Kapor

New YorkPeopleCoolYouLookKnow

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

Dick Van Dyke

LifeCreativeFunMy LifeShowMost

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

Christie Hefner

PeopleThinkWayCriticsReaders

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