Olga Tokarczuk Quotes

#1. Read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.

P.D. James

#2. Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind's - on the human condition. ...

Carl Sagan

#3. I don't believe in soul mates, but there's an understanding between us that I just haven't felt before, or at least, not for a long time. It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken.

Paula Hawkins

#4. Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

Colin Firth

#6. You are drunk, baby. Who made me drunk? I made you drunk, said the major. I made you drunk because I love you and because America is in the war.

Anonymous

#7. Nobody should have to die to a crappy soundtrack

James R Tuck

#8. Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#9. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

Stephen Hawking

#10. At the end of the day, you won't be happy unil you love yourself.

Lady Gaga

#11. The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez