“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHeartHas BeensBookNaturalSecretThousandPreservesContributionThousand YearsHuman HeartNatural History Author:August Strindberg
“The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.” KnowsWantTryingReasonChanceSecretScrutinyGlare Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.” NeedsTryingArtistTermSecretEncouragementAshamedPregnancy Book:The Sound of Paper Source: The Sound of Paper
“I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.” IfsTryingHumansLittlesCharacterStoriesAnimalSecretEventsGreatnessAdultsWarmSatireHistoricFoibles Book:Walt Disney: Conversations Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.” TryingKindDreamMovingMemoriesForgetSecretTalkingEssentialsModelsRemainsIntimateConfession Author:Oskar Kokoschka
“It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.” TryingHardUniverseNextSleepSecretFiguresMonthsGirlfriendGoing To SleepYour Girlfriend Author:Antony Garrett Lisi
“The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.” PeopleMenTryingHeartLongWarVoiceSecretNovelPsychologyCircumstancesNormalCapableLong TimeBraveMalesDeeperSurfaceEvery ManExplorationStillnessAftermathBest Novel Author:Andrew X. Pham