Janna Firestone Quotes

#1. I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

Nicole Jordan

#2. When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Alexander McQueen

#3. There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

Peter Greenaway

#4. No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived.

Ruth Ozeki

#5. The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Carlos Castaneda

#6. I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

William Forsythe

#7. Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.

Charles Lamb

#8. But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

Laura Hillenbrand

#9. You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Kerry Washington

#10. When the will is given, the battle is ended.

George Matheson

#11. There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

Bob Marley

#12. A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

Sophocles

#13. The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

Gilbert K. Chesterton