Patrick Modiano Quotes

Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

Patrick Modiano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 30, 1945

Topics

WritingObstaclesNeverHardExplain

What I love about 'Modern Family' is that it makes you laugh, and there's hilarious physical gags that are outrageous, but there's real heart to it, and you feel good after you watch it.

Jessica St. Clair

FamilyLoveGoodHeartFeel Good

I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.

Jenna Morasca

FriendsSurvivorMoreRealizeMiss

I want to make it so that it's OK to not be OK.

Mauro Ranallo

WantMakeOK

I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which doesn't exist anymore.

Jeff Buckley

MeWorldYouJazzRealWithout

When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.

Steven Levy

FearSpaceMovingOuter SpaceSoviet

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Robin S. Sharma

WorkLeadershipPassionInfluence

The 600 is survival. It's NASCAR's longest race.

Robby Gordon

SurvivalRaceNASCARLongest

My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.

Russell Tovey

WaterPeopleThinkYouGayToo Much

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Mary Ritter Beard

ResultsBeyondAlwaysPhilanthropy

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Molly Ivins

FreedomJusticeFunLaughterYou

Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.

Jon Pardi

LifeBestMeWritingSongYou

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

Arnaud Desplechin

MusicImaginationNewRap MusicRap

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