Raffaele Fiore Quotes

#1. I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.

John Niven

#2. We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#4. In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself ... the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

Percy Lubbock

#5. Look at the sun! It's dry, it's dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I'll give it blood!

Alfred De Musset

#6. I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him by exposing his wife [CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson]. And we sat down to do a long interview by satellite and we publicized it for several days.

Keith Olbermann

#7. I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

Bethany Mota

#8. I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

Nick Harkaway

#9. Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.

Drew Goddard