"Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother."

-- Richard Peck

#Mother Quotes #Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes

“As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.”
“When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.”
“When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.”
“In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here to Jupiter, giving us enormous angular resolution so we can do the kind of science that a self-respecting advanced civilization ought to be doing. We should someday be imaging the continents on other planets. We can't do that yet, but aliens can do that already, so they know we are here.”

Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.
“My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 23, 2015.
“I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.”
“As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.”
“The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.”

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