“Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.” Quote by Marilyn Hacker
“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.” LooksReasonStrangeDissolutionStrange Times Author:Johan Huizinga
“The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.” WayFallSkyHandleDrunkFalling Down Author:David Millar
“Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.” LooksPlayerFootballAestheticDisplayManliness Author:J. R. Moehringer
“The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.” UseNightPlayerRageFuelEvery NightJordanRoad Rage Author:J. R. Moehringer
“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.” PlayGamesFieldsFootballPaperLettersBaseballNarrativeBoxingSooner Or LaterSheetsNotebookLinearHandball Author:J. R. Moehringer
“I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.” IfsKnowsNeedsWritingPersonsJoyDesireLeftOne ThingConvinceNot AloneLeft AloneDevastationFear Of Being Alone Author:Shonda Rhimes
“I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.” ThinkingWorldWritingCharacterWould BeActorsRolesMoonCastsRhythmToneTwilightVacuumsNew Moon Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.” KnowsWorldWritingKindI CanDifferentMightNovelKnow HowInvolvedAssumingStorytellingCraftsSomedayDifferent KindsBecause I CanScreenplaysDifferent Worlds Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.” IfsThinkingNeedsLongEndsStoriesMiddleDrawsTiredStorytellingBeginning Middle And End Author:Melissa Rosenberg