"For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do."

-- David Macaulay

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Way Quotes

“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”
“I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”
“No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.”
“Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But they attract lots of people, they're much derided as a genre but people go and see them and they're not all dumb. There's some very clever horror films. Stephen King gets a lot of flack for not being a proper writer because he's a horror writer, but I think he writes some brilliant books. I think it's wrong to just bin it before looking at it.”
“I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.”
“In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.”
“It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest”
“I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.”

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