Convmudcstd Hd Quotes

#1. And the problem was that there was a positive epidemic of narcissism, encouraged by commercial manipulation and by the shallow values of Hollywood films. And interestingly enough, the real growth area was male narcissism.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Eula Biss

#3. I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

Jim Crace

#4. If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon ... The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.

Donna Tartt

#5. Not now. He was quiet, and then he said, You are the only person in this world I want to have sitting here beside me. That isn't what I think, it's what I know. I guess it doesn't explain anything.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. America doesn't have health insurance.

Joe Biden

#7. I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Iris Johansen

#8. Personal branding is distinctively marketing your uniqueness.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#9. The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Democritus

#10. Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

Betsy Beers

#11. While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today are of course uniquely qualified to comment on their own time.

Michael Hersch