Rebecca Stead Quotes

I asked myself what it was that I wanted from writing and where my connection with books began, and the answer to that question was definitely in childhood, because that's where my connection with reading began.

Rebecca Stead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1968

Topics

MyselfChildhoodWritingReading

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Jim Woodring

NatureDreamsFishMeaningHoodYou

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

Jeff Bridges

GoodGreatGood NewsNewsAlways

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

Stephen Baldwin

GoodMouthRunPrettyBeliefsAbout

I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

Simon Schama

MeRememberBadGirlfriendSeemHer

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

Tom Hodgkinson

BusyProductiveFitCitizensCourse

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

Ronny Chieng

StyleComedyOlympianObservational

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Mary Douglas

DayPresentHierarchyMuchReviled

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

Judy Holliday

I AmWritingChanceActingQuit

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

Chris Bauer

GoodGreatPeopleEvilTreatTools

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

OverUsedWellCompulsive

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Ric Flair

HurtFeelingsNoneAnybodyWritten

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

Marley Dias

LoveReadingThinkCareSomething

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