"As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling."

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Karen Thompson Walker

#Beautiful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.”
“By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 29, 2012.
“A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”
“You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'”
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
“I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.”

Source : Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”
“You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.”

Source : "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.
“I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.”

Source : "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.

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