Patricia MacLachlan Quotes

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

Patricia MacLachlan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 3, 1938

Topics

GreatDanceBetterQuestionsYou

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

Matt Groening

ThingsLikeOtherOurLotMoved

The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.

Amir Khan

ChangeMistakesManFightMeLook

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Amity Shlaes

FaithGovernmentBuildingFastNew

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

Sturgill Simpson

CuriousDoneAnythingSomethingGet

When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Steve Valentine

BestFunPeopleMeMagicYou

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

Topher Grace

NameMy OwnGoogleOwnRule

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

Tom Catena

WorkEngineeringMechanicalMuch

You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.

Rodney Carrington

YouGoWayTalkNeverRight

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Mason Cooley

PowerLyingThanMuchLess

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Jason Ritter

TimeFairFollowOpenAnythingHack

'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.

Jose Angel Gurria

BadTaxPoliticiansWord

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

Conor Maynard

I AmMeListeningThinkPictureOwn

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