Celius Dougherty Quotes

#1. All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

Lester Bangs

#2. Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

James Dashner

#3. In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.

Wilfred Burchett

#4. I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

Kelly Link

#5. What's the handle, Zock?

William Goldman

#6. [ ... ] when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [ ... ] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [ ... ]

David Zindell

#7. I hate female men.

Agnes Smedley

#8. I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

Damian Kulash

#9. Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling

Sunday Adelaja