“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'” PeopleFeelsFirstsHumansPersonsBookCharacterGirlReadingActorsRealizingHoursAbilityWhiteEmpathyScriptsAgentsMovieMikeDualityCreepyRight PersonBooks And ReadingGood GirlWrong Person Author:Jennifer Aniston
“A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.” PeopleWritingHumansSaidBookMightHuman BeingsAbilityMastersGeniusSaintSelfishEggsButterflyEaglesCaterpillarsMonasteries Book:One Minute Wisdom Source: One Minute Wisdom
“What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.” WritingBookAbilitySuccessfulOne ThingSentencesSteadyGood BookStamina Author:Katy Lederer
“when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.” NeedsFeelsBookUsedSportsAbilitySituationFootballCapacityStrategyAthleteEnduranceAthleticStaminaWrestlerAthletic Ability Author:Dhani Jones
“Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMayPersonsBookAbleLyingLanguageAbilityExampleTruth IsDegreesSellsCrowdsConvinceKnackShady Author:George Orwell
“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.” NeedsFirstsBookIdeasStoriesFormAbilityAcceptingNovelGutsImperfectUncertainRevision Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.” WantBookAbilityFailingDevelopmentProductionsAbsenceThorough Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.” WayWritingBookStoriesPastNaturalAbilityPrinciplesWeightIntegratedPremonitionHeuristics Author:Gore Vidal
“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.” YearsLongBookIdeasAgeEarthAbilityExampleKeysEvolutionPaperMassOriginalsFundamentalsRateNuclearBillionsCompareFeaturesBiologyPapersFissionNuclear FissionSpeciation Author:Bill Nye
“If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.” IfsFeelsMindLooksBookDoneProblemActionMotherLosesAbilityBearsLateInstinctRight ThingLook UpToo LateIntuitiveIncompetent Author:Donald Woods Winnicott
“Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my favorite kind of hero--an alpha male angel determined to win the heart of his heroine, Lindsay, while protecting her from his lethal enemy. Lindsay is a gutsy, likable woman with paranormal abilities of her own, as well as a dedication to protecting humanity against a race of demonic monsters. This is definitely a book for your keeper shelf.” WellsHeartKindBookHumanityWinningAbilityRaceEnemyAdventureHeroAngelExcitingMalesMy FavoriteDeterminedMonstersStorytellingParanormalDedicationShelvesSoarGorgeousAlpha MaleKeepersHeroinesDemonicAlphasCrimsonProtecting Her Author:Angela Knight
“As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.” KindMadeBookChoicesActorsLosesAbilityActingFashionIntellectualAppreciationDisappearMysticalFascinationGreat Actors Author:Rebecca Miller