Norah Vincent Self Made Man Quotes

#1. Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

Gene Wolfe

#2. Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

Matt Bomer

#3. It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

Anne Tyler

#4. The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

Hugh Jackman

#5. There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

R.A. Salvatore

#6. Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.

Isabelle Hardesty

#7. Pinto bean & spiralized sweet potato quesadilla

Tami Hardeman

#8. I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'

Philip Reeve

#9. He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.

Michael Chabon

#10. ...go in the direction your head is pointed in.

Jung Chang

#11. Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Aron Ralston

#12. All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Damon Lindelof

#13. I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

Georges St-Pierre