Tamora Pierce Quotes

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

Tamora Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1953

Topics

SchoolPeopleWritingYouNeedSee

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

John Baldacci

StartGoWhyOverUpSomewhere

I don't do carrots.

John Bolton

Carrots

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.

Ann Patchett

TimeWaterWinGameProblemWrite

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tony Campolo

ImpossiblePunishmentOutAgainst

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

Rita Moreno

KingMeFaceYouSawHad

My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.

Luke Rockhold

FutureMyselfKeep GoingGoalPay

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron

BusinessGentlemanFallHimAxeUs

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

Conor Oberst

GoodHeartVoiceBadScreaming

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

StrengthHappinessCourageHumorMe

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

LifeWindLife Is ShortUpside Down

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

Scott Bakula

PeopleFindSidesMasculineWhom

To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.

Rene Ricard

ArtMyselfSupportBostonKidModel

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