“What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.” Quote by Debra Hamel
“What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the best examples of 'micro-history' or the 'new narrative'...." And that was it.” BookReadingExampleTrialsNarrative Author:Debra Hamel
“In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.” WritingBookFoundMinesPagesDecidedAgentsClientsWriting A BookManuscriptsAcknowledgmentLiterary Agents Author:Debra Hamel
“Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.” WritingWellsFeelingsEnjoyHoursComputerResearchParagraph Author:Debra Hamel
“My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which he describes prying snails from the terrace of his vacation home and cooking them up for dinner.” FirstsHas BeensI CanHomeHandsRememberCookingCome UpDinnerBest ThingsKitchenEncountersPassagesVacationLackingAutobiographyPinsApprenticeSnailSecond HandTerrace Author:Debra Hamel
“I'm always impressed that as we go through life most of the stuff we do doesn't matter that much, at least not ostensibly: you go to the grocery store, you work, you go to school. If any of that were omitted, most days, it wouldn't matter much.” IfsMatterSchoolStuffStoresImpressedGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:Debra Hamel
“But I also enjoy life... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am.” I CanEnjoyWho I AmEnjoy LifeScrutinyI Am Who I Am Author:Khloe Kardashian
“Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.” TurnsCoursesSimpleDecisionObviousTurn-onSimple ThingsImportsSmall Decisions Author:Debra Hamel
“These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.” TwoDaughterThese DaysTwo Daughters Author:Debra Hamel
“There's a thing when you're always working on something you really love, and this one we loved so much, it feels like you have a secret, and you can't wait to let people in on the secret. But at the same time, there's that moment where, "What if they get the secret and they think the secret is stupid?!"” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsMomentsWaitingSecretStupidLike YouWhat IfThat MomentAlways Working Author:Matt Reeves
“Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because what we're going to be doing, I think for fans especially, we think is really cool, because part of the process that most people don't ever get to see [is] that before these movies are movies starring photo-real apes, they're movies starring the image of Andy Serkis and the other actors, who are playing apes.” PeopleThinkingRealAbleCoursesActorsProcessShareFansExcitedNervousMovie StarApesReally Cool Author:Matt Reeves