"What was it that drew you back? My……" — Jonathan Stroud
"What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?"
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72 Quotes by Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud has 72 quotes on this site.
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Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it—two power—crazed magicians killed, a hundred power—crazed magicians saved…
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So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
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That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small…
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We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question…
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That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle.
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I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go…
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When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would…
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As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a…
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As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they…
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The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to…
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When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every…
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Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
— Richard Armour
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
— Antonin Artaud
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
— Douglas Adams
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
— Yogi Berra
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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