Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped... →
Meg Rosoff
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the... →
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.
Isabella Rossellini
I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night... →
Portia de Rossi
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the... →
Jean Rostand
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we... →
Leo Rosten
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in... →
Joseph Rotblat
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very... →
James Rothman
I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.
Mickey Rourke