Trying Quotes - Page 423

You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt.

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.