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Alastair Reynolds Quotes

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: March 13, 1966

Topics

Writing Trying You Burden Heavy Get

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

Jerry Leiber

Business Music Romantic Me Thought

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

Johann Lamont

Change Party Want Way Changing Only

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Andrew Gross

Life Sad Eyes Past Chance Suicide

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

Anita Pallenberg

Writing Young Want Why Spice Write

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Sophie Marceau

Tough Think Person Talk Torture

It's no different than anything else in anybody else's life. Doesn't matter how simple or complex. There are days you hate it and days you love it.

Tony Stewart

Life Love Hate Simple You Matter

Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.

Ruby Dee

Tired Thought Retirement Grow You

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Mike Krzyzewski

Time Football School High School Out

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

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.

Dean Jones

You Sometimes Compliment Hollywood

If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.

April Bowlby

School Enjoy You Going Should

Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.

Asif Ali Zardari

Forward India Genuine Way Tension