Paul Engle Quotes

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.

Paul Engle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 12, 1908 - March 22, 1991

Topics

VisionMeetingClassFirstOver

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

MenYouHorrorWriteFictionNotice

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

LifeAgeMomSisterStoryDrawing

Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.

Maz Jobrani

CommunityParentsMomStartYouWhy

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

Amy Sherman-Palladino

MistakeThinkTryEverythingJust

You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most amazing, beautiful thing.

Steven Adams

BeautifulAmazingYouGoThrough

I've started a little independent record label called 'Six String Productions' and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It's a real passion project of mine.

Tom Felton

FuturePassionHopeYearIndependent

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

CookingComputersDesign

The biggest part of why I am where I am today is not only because people can relate to me and my story but because I hit the road and actually saw them face to face and shook their hands.

Logic

TodayI AmPeopleMeRoadFace

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

Jonathan Krohn

MorningMeHimYearsIdolOh

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

Dolly Parton

ShortBigWatchBecauseWeightJust

All I can tell you is that I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

Diane von Furstenberg

StrengthWomanStrongYouI CanOut

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

Apolo Ohno

PassionRespectGreatAmazingCool

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