Writer Guides Quotes

#1. I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

Patricia Riggen

#2. You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.

Seimone Augustus

#3. Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Betty Friedan

#4. In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.

Geoffrey Hinton

#5. What thou lovest well is
thy true heritage
what thou lovest well shall
not be reft from thee

Ezra Pound

#6. I've been doing this since I was 12 ... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

Ryan Gosling

#7. Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - When adding eggs, break the shells first.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#8. When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

Patrick Demarchelier

#9. As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story

Richard Yates