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Lauren Oliver Quotes

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

Lauren Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 8, 1982

Topics

Future Hope People Help Look Always

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Jo Nesbo

Best Name Go Crime Fiction Compete

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Jo Nesbo

Character Story End Interesting You

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

Jennifer Aniston

Morning Wake Up You Up Wake Excites

I have to tell you, it's very boring, but before I did yoga, I was a stand-up comedian who can't stand up. And now I can stand on my head.

Maysoon Zayid

Stand Up Stand You I Can Now Boring

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

Max Joseph

Day End Of The Day End Bad Person

I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

Trent Reznor

Family Just Like Around Somehow

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

Mike Tyson

Religion Me Cool Think Talk Drink

I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK.

Courtney A. Kemp

I Am People Color White Say Write

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Bob Dylan

Life I Am Happy My Life Place Stage

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bleeds

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

Willie Geist

Hope Doing Unique Irony Him Torch

There was one family drama on television when we took out 'The Fosters' - 'Parenthood'. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but nobody thought there was a home for it.

Peter Paige

Family Home Great Thought Television