Darren Shan Quotes

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.

Darren Shan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 2, 1972

Topics

PositiveChildrenGreatFocusThink

I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.

Melora Hardin

CharacterBelieveArtistWellEvery

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Jean Genet

CalmViolenceYou

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill

NatureRespectManDutyFollowOwn

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Mignon McLaughlin

ThoughtWillMatterHalfIdeaMoved

A lot of these defensive linemen, they're real whirling dervishes - they do all these fancy moves.

Mike Daniels

RealFancyDefensiveMovesLot

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

Janice Dickinson

DayAdvertisingDoingBackRunway

I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.

Jasmine Guinness

LakeDownGoAlwaysHoneymoonUp

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

Domhnall Gleeson

YouKnowHimGiveGetStuff

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

Diane Lane

AnimalChildYouYoungPointJust

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

Deanna Raybourn

RomanticFashionStoryMysteryYou

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

Conor Oberst

LifeSongDetailsYouGoalWrite

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Chuck Yeager

GreatJobRisksChanceYouResults

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