Stephen Leigh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  • Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  • While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

  • You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

  • Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

  • I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

  • We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  • I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.