Ellen Klages Quotes

#1. She thought for a minute about going back, but decided that maybe being wet on a sort-of adventure was better than being dry and bored for sure.

Ellen Klages

#2. The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

L. Ron Hubbard

#3. Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.

Ellen Klages

#4. All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.'
'Why's that?'
'Art doesn't kill anyone.

Ellen Klages

#5. My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Ellen Klages

#6. I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

#7. The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

Paul Krugman

#8. Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)

Ellen Klages

#9. What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

Dennis R. Miller

#10. She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this.

Ann Brashares

#11. Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

Paul Ekman

#12. She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

Ellen Klages

#13. Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)

Ellen Klages

#14. My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

Ellen Klages

#15. The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Max Barry

#16. Sometimes it's hard to predict who will make a person happy. But in the end, that's what matters.

Kody Keplinger

#17. Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

C. Neil Strait

#18. I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

Ellen Klages

#19. I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

Ellen Klages

#20. I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

Alden Ehrenreich

#21. At least once a week, Dinsy was amused by the indignant sputtering of someone who had just spooned dill weed, not sugar, into a cup of Earl Grey tea.

Ellen Klages

#22. I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Jack Nicklaus