M. J. Rose Quotes

The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

M. J. Rose

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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

LifeLiveGreatMeHusbandThink

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MeImportantYoungMoreSeemSacred

I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

Joan Lunden

RelationshipTimeDayPeopleAmazing

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

John Constable

LoveWaterSoundOldThingsRotten

I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.

John McEnroe

PlaceTennisUpSeenTrendSure

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

Matt Groening

WorkHard WorkMeWishI WishHard

It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.

Michael Shanks

CharacterLongUniqueNiceMy Own

More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

Moby

LifeHateMeRealityMy LifeGossip

A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.

Lizzie Armitstead

FamilyTimeDecisionBabyEnough

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

WomenMenGenderNumbersNobodyBuy

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

Deryck Whibley

WorkChairYouHouseWantNever

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

David Selby

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