Personnages Celebres Quotes

#1. A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

John Niven

#2. And when Venutius was not busy fighting, he was content to spend his days hammering things near a forge and his evenings hammering, well ... as I said, we got on well.

Stephanie Dray

#3. I'm very happy for you guys. I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.

Daniel Handler

#4. Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

August Strindberg

#6. The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

James Mangold

#7. Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Constance Baker Motley

#8. Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic, or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses--pretty but designed to SLOW women down.

Roxane Gay