Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species. Ken Liu Read Quote
Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, ‘Well, it’s all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.’ Sebastian Faulks Read Quote
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. Stephen J. Dubner Read Quote
Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels – and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they’ve been tried. Rachel Campos-Duffy Read Quote
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality. Patrick Wilson Read Quote
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. Anne Northup Read Quote
