Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Idina Menzel

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

James L. Brooks

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

Judy Blume

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Julianna Baggott

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

John Cusack

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.

Janeane Garofalo

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Jonathan Glazer

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

John Lennon

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Jose Rizal

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

Karen Armstrong

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

Kenneth Koch

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

Linus Torvalds

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Martin Amis

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Mark Haddon

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Michel Houellebecq

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

Matthew Vaughn

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Mo Yan

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

Nicholas Sparks