A Quote by Patricia Briggs

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Patricia Briggs

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Acts Feels Figure Hallway Important Like Looks Out

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Patricia Briggs
American - Writer
Born: 1965

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

Brian Selznick

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Barbra Streisand

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

Paul Weller

When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.

James Wan

What you can't teach someone is how to find the door. You can't give someone a door to another universe. You can tell them that the door exists, and if they're stuck in the hallway you can be like, "You're stuck in the hallway," but you can't open the door for them.

Ottessa Moshfegh

South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.

Watkin Tudor Jones

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things.

Kate DiCamillo

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

Richelle Mead

I believe this: If an actor wants a role or wants to work with somebody, then you do everything within reason to try to get that role. If they want you to audition, you audition. If they want you to screen-test, you screen-test. If they want you to come and tap-dance in their hallway, you tap-dance in their hallway.

Kevin Spacey

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Chuck Palahniuk

I was the hallway clown in high school.

J. B. Smoove

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

Piper Perabo

I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

Tyra Banks

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.