Edvard Snouden Quotes

#1. People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Bruce Schneier

#2. My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you're a man, you're actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

John Le Carre

#5. I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught

Pascale Petit

#6. When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

Isabel Allende

#7. It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

John Humphrys

#8. Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

Taylor Swift

#9. The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

Norman O. Brown

#10. There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Leigh Hunt

#11. From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

Stephen McCauley

#12. Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

Marcus Samuelsson