Books Quote by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

— Stanley Kubrick

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response,…

— August Wilson

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are…

— Ken Liu

“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes…

— Mark Twain

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young,…

— Robert Klein

If anybody sounds like me... everyone knows me, I'm flattered.

— The-Dream

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone.…

— Stephen Merchant

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much…

— Edmund White

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

— Mae Martin

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

— Sue Perkins

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.”

— Meg Wolitzer