“As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That’s the bottom line.”
~ Glenn Close, b. 19 March 1947
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Richard Condon (b. Mar 18): “Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.”
18 Mar
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Richard Condon (born 18 March 1915, died 9 April 1996) was a prolific and popular American political novelist whose satiric works were generally presented in the form of thrillers or semi-thrillers, including Prizzi’s Honor and The Manchurian Candidate.
Five quotes on writing:
- Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.
- I’m a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I’m a pawnbroker of myth.
- Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there’s absolutely nothing else to do.
- I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It’s the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what’s going to happen three hours from now.
- Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it’s the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.
Queen Latifah (b. Mar 18): “I don’t know how to be anyone else.”
18 Mar
“I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.”
~ Queen Latifah, b. 18 March 1970
Peter Robinson (b. Mar 17): “Writers have to be able to enjoy solitude…”
17 Mar
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Peter Robinson, born 17 March 1950, is a Canadian crime writer born in Britain. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He has written 25 books.
Writing quotes:
- I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I’ve always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.
- Put your bum on the chair and your fingers on the keyboard. Read widely, too. When my students fail it’s usually nothing to do with lack of talent but everything to do with lack of application. So many people want to be writers, but few actually want to write!
- I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.
- I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It’s no good to me reading about something that’s all neatly solved and wrapped up. That’s why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don’t profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.
Rob Lowe (b. Mar 17): “Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself…”
17 Mar
“Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with my wife, which I was never able to do before.”
~ Rob Lowe, b. 17 March 1964
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Alice Hoffman (b. Mar 16): “Books may well be the only true magic.”
16 Mar
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Alice Hoffman, born 16 March 1952, is an American novelist best known for her novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism.
Quotes on writing:
- Books may well be the only true magic.
- No one knows how to write a novel until it’s been written.
- You can’t dispute the ridiculous. You can’t argue reasonably with evil.
- I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
- That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
- After a while, the characters I’m writing begin to feel real to me. That’s when I know I’m heading in the right direction.
- I’ve been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
- All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
- The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her – she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don’t.
- My theory is that everyone, at one time or another, has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who’s different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
Bernardo Bertolucci (b. Mar 16): “I left the ending ambiguous…”
16 Mar
“I left the ending ambiguous, because that’s the way life is.”
~ Bernardo Bertolucci, b. 16 March 1940
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Eva Longoria (b. Mar 15): “I just came into my own sexuality at thirty…”
15 Mar
“I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don’t think it’s something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.”
~ Eva Longoria, b. 15 March 1975
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Michael Caine (b. Mar 14): “I feel a tremendous sadness for men…”
14 Mar
“I feel a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.”
~ Michael Caine, b. 14 March 1933
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Albert Einstein (b. Mar 14): “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity.”
14 Mar
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not even sure about the former.”
~ Albert Einstein, b. 14 March 1879
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