Nothing Quote by Glen Duncan Download Open image ““Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.”” — Glen Duncan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nothing Self Writing
“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“The Writers curse We have to write We have no choice We have stories to TELL” — Paul Barrell Copy Share Image
“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.” — Molly Evangeline Copy Share Image
“My story isn't beautiful or tragic. It's just another story about a cursed girl living a shitty life.” — Lesley Anne Cowan Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, a story is just the thing we tell ourselves to escape the ordinariness of a life that has no tale to tell at… — A.J. Grayson Copy Share Image
“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred a gentleness… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
One day I woke up and Juventus wanted me, another Manchester United and what I know is that there were approaches made. But an… — Raul Jimenez Copy Share Image
For 11 straight years, I woke up pretty much every single day with nothing to do unless I created something to do. — Matt Rife Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Real Madrid are Real Madrid, and any player would want to be at Real Madrid. Why would I want to leave Real Madrid? I… — Alvaro Morata Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image