Eclectically Mine Quotes

#1. You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually.

Tom Stoppard

#2. I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Halle Berry

#3. Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Elizabeth George

#4. Use the Internet to help your daily life, not replace to replace it.

David Chiles

#5. To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

Matt De La Pena

#6. You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in.

Courtney Summers

#7. I don't know whether to feel good or bad about learning that my experience is widely shared.'
'Feel bad,' he said.

Don DeLillo

#8. In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

Karl Kraus

#9. Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

Emmett Shear

#10. Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. I

Edward Abbey

#11. I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

#12. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Winston S. Churchill

#13. Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan