Neal Asher Quotes

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.

Neal Asher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 4, 1961

Topics

TogetherWordsStoryReachBlurYou

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

Steve Albini

YourselfRoadBuyFeedEven

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Studs Terkel

HealthPeopleWorldInsuranceWealth

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Siri Hustvedt

MotherWomenCultureExpectations

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Shimon Peres

TimeMeArmyFirstRankSensitive

Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

Roger Moore

BabyWaitStartYouBornSay

Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally.

Ross Kemp

BelieveSomeoneBossesSomeAfford

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Mike Colter

TimeLuckWritingControlRandom

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Michael Patrick Jann

LifeOpportunitiesThinkMy LifeHad

I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.

Jason Aldean

WorkGreatDayTogetherLanguage

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

Janine di Giovanni

JobPeopleBetterAmericaGoKnow

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Jared Polis

BusinessWorldLookingYouAhead

Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.

Joseph Stiglitz

ControlPresidentMoreAuthoritarian

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