“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.” KnowsSometimesCharacterMovingYoungWaitingWaterWifeFrontsInstanceFarmsYardsMoving Away Author:Ron Rash
“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.” WayChildrenHelpingTogetherNumbersAttentionWifeFailingHusbandDemandFaultsInstanceHusband And WifeConcentratingArmourHusband Wife Author:Richard Armour
“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'” FirstsLooksHandsLawUsedNovelWifeFeetResearchToolsHistoricalEightMy WifeInstanceOnlineBookstoresWilsonEncyclopediaSecond HandCertitudeHistorical NovelsBastille Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did Sea Wolf together along with Christopher Reeve. Ive been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.” EnoughTogetherActorsWifeSeaLuckyInstanceLegendaryKim Author:Catherine Mary Stewart
“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.” MenWayShouldWritingTryingArtHardWould BeLawArtistWifeImpossiblePoetJudgingAmountOrdinaryTreatsHarmFoolishNewspapersIncomePainterInstanceColourStatuesSculptorsTrying HardOverestimateNeckties Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.” WantWritingWellsWifeQuietBoringInstanceBiographiesBoring Life Author:T.C. Boyle
“As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.” ShouldEndsReasonWifeTroubleHusbandAuthorityCatholicInstanceRelyAbandonBishopsRely Upon Book:Bertrand Russell's Best Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.” KnowsWorldArtWifeFashionBecomingWindowInstanceRevolutionaryDesignerFashion DesignerIntertwinedDior Author:Delphine Arnault