"Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty…" — Diane Johnson
"Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel."
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12 Quotes by Diane Johnson
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The…
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In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
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The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
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Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
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Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
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Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes…
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The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves…
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Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who…
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A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The…
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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when…
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More Adams Quotes
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he…
— Michele Bachmann
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a…
— Piers Anthony
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But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in…
— Michele Bachmann
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part...
— Charlotte Gray
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Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see…
— Elliott Erwitt
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The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know…
— Unknown Author
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Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
— John Szarkowski
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When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending.…
— Arsene Wenger
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Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There…
— Jody Lynn Nye
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I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the…
— Ian Paisley
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Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote…
— Thom Yorke
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