#real

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#had #i #look #much #proof

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#good #happy #i #i do #i think

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#child #children #know #lie #like

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#believe #experience #fringes #funny #funny way

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#hard lesson #lesson #reality #right #right things

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#childhood #essential #first #i #inside

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#alone #centered #i #kinds #large

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't! ↗

— Christine Taylor

#good #growing #growing up #i #inspiring

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#backs #divine #everything #external #must