Garry Disher Quotes

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Garry Disher

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WritingYouStudentsMustReaders

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Jim Barksdale

CreativeDoingUpUsDemandFulfill

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

Jennifer Granholm

LoveIdeasFreePassionateSigns

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Jenny Lewis

MusicJoyListeningThinkMusicians

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin

WomenMenGossipTheoryLowIdea

I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'

Melvin Van Peebles

BusinessArtRestLearnAmericaYou

I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.

John O. Brennan

ResponsibilityPeopleThinkResult

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.

John Hutton

NatureBusinessRoadBecomeTesting

I've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had from my friends, family, my team-mates and staff at Cardiff Blues and the WRU throughout my treatment. It has meant a huge amount to me.

Matthew Rees

FamilyGoodSupportLuckGood Luck

I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.

Torrey DeVitto

TreeCrazySayingThinkFeelYou

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

Tom Smothers

FreedomFirst AmendmentFirstHearing

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

WordsGovernmentLanguageHelpHere

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

Ruth Reichl

LifeMeThinkMy LifeKindHard

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