Ridley Pearson Quotes

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• There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction…
• When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently…
• True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.
• Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....
• As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only…
• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or…
• I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a…
• I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.
• I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.
• The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
• For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or,…
• My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can…
• Always trust computer games.
• I... do... not... do... lightning.
• Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.
• But listen up Alex Rider.....
• Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right.…
• What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?
• Okay, so let's run faster.
• The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most…

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