#we

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#paid #responsibilities #very #well

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#exclusively #i #life #my life #ray

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#better #bomb #could #intent #just

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#came #first #four #got #half

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#down #good #grandfather #had #i

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#coward #difference #hero #sideways #step

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#between #book #children #difference #even

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #does #done #horror #just

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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