Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 5, 1884 - August 27, 1969

Topics

KnowHardPointJustJarFinished

If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me.

Michael Arrington

MeSituationDoneReasonContent

Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison cell, life is what you make of it.

Stefan Karl Stefansson

LifeAloneTimePrisonLovedYou

Being reasonably direct about what you're doing, being comfortable, is the best way to do things.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

BestDoingYouComfortableWay

Economic success without accountability and social inclusion is not sustainable, and new governments often must face tough choices in order to protect the poor and vulnerable.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

SuccessAccountabilityChoicesFace

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeThoughtsThinkingThoughtPush

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Michael Moschen

LifeLearningTimeProcessLongKid

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Michael Ondaatje

EndingRealSeeClosureSenseAny

I'm not the type to call people out.

Bobby Lashley

PeopleOutCallType

I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

Anne-Marie Duff

FriendMyselfSchoolYouthTheatre

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and healthy once again.

Susan Burton

HealthyRepairLeavingBeginWhole

For me, the stamp that I impose on stuff comes from the fact that in the '80s, when I was starting to write movies, I looked back to the '70s. So the films I enjoyed as a kid were the thrillers that came out of the '70s. Back then, you didn't have action movies; you had adventure films or thrillers.

Shane Black

AdventureMeActionYouBackMovies

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Martin Cruz Smith

PowerGovernmentDownSayThey Say

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