Etan's Quotes

#1. It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

Lord David Cecil

#2. I only understand realism.

Manuel Puig

#3. The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.

Whitey Herzog

#4. Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

Steven L. Peck

#5. When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.

Etan Cohen

#6. I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

Etan Cohen

#7. She was an abstraction in an abstraction: an impossible intersection of dozens of bright panes, as if the disassembled tiles of a stained-glass window had each been set aglow and animated. She swirled before me like a school of fish.

Peter Watts

#8. Battlestar Galactica.

Melissa Draughn

#9. As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

Chelsea Cain

#10. I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school ... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class.

Stacey Farber

#11. [On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. Promise me."
"No."
Etan's eyes were glassy with tears. "Coward. If I were dying, you'd promise me. Because you wouldn't have to answer to me then. But I'm not dying, and you won't promise it. Bloody coward.

Brian McClellan

#13. We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

Tom Lantos

#14. When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

Ian McEwan

#15. Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.

Etan Cohen