A Quote by Leonard Bishop

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

Leonard Bishop

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Leonard Bishop
American - Novelist
October 17, 1922 - December 19, 2002

She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

David Nicholls

I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.

Shani Davis

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

Alan Ayckbourn

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me a work ethic of writing every day and pushing through difficult creative times. I mean, there's no writer's block allowed in a newsroom.

Michael Connelly

There are no perfect life plan formulas. It’s a roller coaster with various exit ramps.

Jason Landry

When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.

Wylie Dufresne

I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'

Heather Graham

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

Anne Fadiman

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street.

Zoe Bell

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

Eric Idle

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

John Dean

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Joe Garagiola

I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.

Leslie Pietrzyk

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

Frank Zappa

A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

Peter Atkins

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