Rebecca Stead Quotes

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

Rebecca Stead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Black And WhiteBlackBetterWhite

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

Matt Taibbi

TimePeopleThinkYouKnowKind

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

Michael Connelly

BusinessDriveBookThinkYearKind

I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

Michael Moore

TimeChildParentsMeEarlyWrong

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

DMX

PowerDevilYouPersonCallBecause

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Dove Cameron

YouSpecialInsideWhateverTake

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

OpportunityTimeSometimesUpAway

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Chinua Achebe

YourselfPeopleStoryYouSituation

'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies... It's so ridiculous.

Chris Pine

FunSaidRidiculousMeanCritics

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

Alissa Quart

LiveDoorBetterDreamNothingMay

Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?

William Lipscomb

GreatCreditYouDiscoveryStudent

I would really love to go back to college, if there's any way I could to do it, and maybe minor in business.

Shanice Williams

LoveBusinessCollegeBackGoWay

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

HumorJoyHeavenSorrowSecret

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