H. F. Ellis Quotes
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.
I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.
I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.
I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.
It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.
Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
