Martha Grimes famous quotes

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Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
-- Martha Grimes

#Hate #Understanding #Trying
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
-- Martha Grimes

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength
Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.
-- Martha Grimes

#House #Roles #Want
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.
-- Martha Grimes

#Mistake #Writing #Thinking
Writing is an antisocial act.
-- Martha Grimes

#Writing #Antisocial
writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.
-- Martha Grimes

#Two #Might #Week
Talking's just a nervous habit.
-- Martha Grimes

#Talking #Nervous #Habit
I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.
-- Martha Grimes

#Memories #Frogs #Throat
Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.
-- Martha Grimes

#Expectations #People #Want
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
-- Martha Grimes

#Memories #Romance #England
Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )
-- Martha Grimes

#Dog #Thinking #Mind
Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.
-- Martha Grimes

#Dog #Bigs #Alleyways
And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.
-- Martha Grimes

#Tea #Rooms #Fours
Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
-- Martha Grimes

#Silence #Way #Okay
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
-- Martha Grimes

#Childhood #Idyllic #Illusion
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.
-- Martha Grimes

#Historical #London #Spheres

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