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Tana French Quotes

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

Tana French

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1973

Topics

Words Writing Doing You Know Way

I live in Manhattan but travel all around the world; I moved to Paris when I was 16; I lived in London twice. It's kind of like, if I want to move somewhere, I don't have anything holding me back. I don't have children. If I wanna live in a certain place, I'll go. But I've lived everywhere, and I prefer New York to everything.

Jessica White

Live Children Travel New York World

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Glory Everything Deed Naught

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

John Darnielle

Feel Interesting Want Never Write

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Robert Shea

Focus People Survive Authoritarian

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Robert Kiyosaki

Age History Beginning World Years

In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

Anand Mahindra

Transformation Exercise You Situation

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Shimon Peres

Learning Never Always Defense Knew

I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

Roz Chast

Cute Yellow Green Thought Name Boy

I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.

Romelu Lukaku

Football People Mind Play Want Just

Exercise and eat healthy foods in moderation. I am a vegetarian but that is a personal choice.

Liz Parrish

I Am Exercise Choice Healthy Eat

I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.

Lorde

Simple Clothes Go Sometimes Vibe

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

Cheryl Tiegs

Eye Attention Situation True Pay