Tourrettes Sur Quotes

#1. Whoever you are and wherever you come from, you grew into your present shape and form in the garden of your early childhood.

A.S.A Harrison

#2. Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label
to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be.

John Irving

#3. At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

Jennifer McMahon

#4. And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

Brom

#5. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Dennis Kucinich

#6. Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Greg Egan

#7. I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Ian Thorpe

#8. I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Plutarch

#9. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#10. I'm a lousy reader.

Broderick Crawford

#11. Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

Karl Barth

#12. Writing makes it even harder than concrete. Writing makes it hard as diamond.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#13. At the beginning he'd thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27

Jennifer Egan

#14. Regret has two sides.
the things we've done,
and the ones we wished we had.

Me