D. J. MacHale Quotes

I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

D. J. MacHale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 11, 1955

Topics

CharacterJourneyTogetherIdeas

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

Jill Scott

TogetherSingingHouseWonderBlues

It's hard to act with just your jaw.

Joel Kinnaman

HardActJustYourJaw

You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.

Andre Ward

ChangeMeFlyYouAdaptWins

I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

Jeff Nichols

LifeGoodLiveTimeSchoolThink

People are scared of the unknown.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

PeopleUnknownScared

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

Steve Carell

GivingPlayKindWhateverUsToy

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Tony Blair

SurvivalHandsFindPersonNormal

When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

Rob Halford

LifeMusicBeginningUnexpectedYou

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

Mike Birbiglia

WritingStartSomeoneHandsYou

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

Michelle Dean

NatureTruthMemoryDramaBecome

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Josh Hutcherson

GoodTimeTrainingMeEatingDiet

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

Chrissy Teigen

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