Irving Stone Quotes

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

Irving Stone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1903 - August 26, 1989

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If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

Jen Sincero

LifeYouFindSeriousWayChanging

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

John Ortberg

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I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

Michael Che

BrainFriendsYouPicturesGoPaint

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

Rush Limbaugh

GrowPartyKindBuildRepublicanUs

To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.

Michelle Paver

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I never get to be funny on T.V.

Diane Neal

FunnyNeverGet

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas MacArthur

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What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

Anthony Horowitz

ChildrenParentsLiteratureGetRid

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare

OutsideFalsehoodHathGoodly

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

Sharon Van Etten

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At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

Ricky Williams

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