- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way Nolan looks at things is just amazing. It can be easily seen in all his films. I was just watching his videos on how he came up with the screenplay of 'Memento,' and it's just extraordinary. It just opens up your mind.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the mumblecore 'Tiny Furniture' thing happened, it reminded me of the thing we were trying to do in my little 1995 way.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say, my family's always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At a very young age, they accepted that my outlet would be writing, and comedic writing, and they were pretty accepting of that.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're watching a Bond movie, if there's a violent death, there's something about cleverly chosen twists, or what props are used, or some way that he's doing something that feels like an ironic twist, that feels like it gives the audience permission to enjoy watching it and to enjoy watching something that's otherwise just brutality.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't complain about the way I've been marketed because it's been so successful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.
- Predict
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- Nov 07, 2020