Franklin Foer Quotes

I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.

Franklin Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 20, 1974

Topics

BestWritingWorldBookThinkYou

If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!

Joanne Froggatt

YouShyWillAskOverSomething

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Meghan Daum

LifeGoodPeopleGood PeopleEnjoy

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

John Lanchester

BookThreePersonalExcitementTurn

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

Michael Douglas

WomenRelationshipMeCareerMeet

I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it.

Simon Helberg

FaceBetterBodyTryActWhole

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

Michelle Dean

LifeBestQualityEvenContemporary

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

MyselfTableSituationWantPlaying

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Mira Sorvino

StrongDownI Have LearnedRolePare

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

MeBackDownRealSameOut

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

Louis Theroux

TrustDNAJournalists

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

Josh Turner

LovePeopleMeCoolWorldLiving

I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

Diego Luna

WorkI CanAlwaysGoingEnglish

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