Garry Disher Quotes

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

Garry Disher

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CreativeWritingActionPlaceKnow

I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

John Coltrane

ThinkUniversePictureWonderful

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

Travis Kalanick

PurposeAdventure

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.

Roger Moore

CharacterMaskYouHideKnowNever

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Martin Yan

HappinessPeopleBelieveYouDone

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Lord John Russell

ImpossibleVoiceNationPrevail

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Joni Mitchell

ArtOutComingComeKids

There are people who have demonstrated their willingness to challenge systems and structures, and then when it comes to elections, some of those same people - I don't know where their fight went. What's interesting to me is to see people lose the revolution when it comes to elections.

DeRay Mckesson

ChallengeFightPeopleMeRevolution

Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

Apollonius of Tyana

SoulMedicineBodySaidLivingArts

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.

Antonin Scalia

GoodCulturePeopleWritingInternet

The team goals are always more important than individual goals. The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl and to do something special. The other little goals that you guys write up, those things take care of itself in the midst of playing football.

Antonio Brown

GoalsFootballTeamWinCareGoal

Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.

Alicia Vikander

WomenTimeMeConnectionDreamSkin

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

Poorna Jagannathan

KnowActorBecomeAlwaysWantedHow

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