Attention Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a…

— Ernst Jentsch

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to…

— Philip Pullman

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look…

— Paul Haggis

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

— Helen Hayes

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think…

— Pete Burns

Why should beauty be suspect?

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so…

— Claire Danes

It is infuriating that the caricature of a person can overtake the reality.

— Monica Barbaro

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not…

— Margaret Halsey

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It…

— Nolan North

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

— Augusten Burroughs