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Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.
- Anthony McCarten
#Human Life
#Human
#Humanity
#Life
#Will
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.
- Anthony McCarten
#Chance
#Create
#Myself
#Routine
#Time
I have three favorite cities: London, Wellington, and Los Angeles. What makes them so good? The friends who live there.
- Anthony McCarten
#Friends
#Good
#Live
#Three
#Who
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
- Anthony McCarten
#Become
#Looks
#More
#Slowly
#Your
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
- Anthony McCarten
#Country
#Inside
#Leave
#Live
#Own
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
- Anthony McCarten
#Fortune
#Impossible
#Living
#Make
#Tell
You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.
- Anthony McCarten
#Brilliant
#Character
#Possible
#Yourself
I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.
- Anthony McCarten
#Born
#Chaos
#Family
#I Can
#Me
Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.
- Anthony McCarten
#Allied
#Commercial
#Quality
#Success
Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this.
- Anthony McCarten
#Easy
#Homework
#More
#Way
#Your
I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.
- Anthony McCarten
#DNA
#I Am
#Luck
#Me
#Yourself
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.
- Anthony McCarten
#Alone
#Better
#People
#Person
#Sin
Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.
- Anthony McCarten
#Always
#Appreciated
#Lie
#Never
#Truth
We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
- Anthony McCarten
#Extraordinary
#Living
#Pen
#Time
#Us
The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
- Anthony McCarten
#Death
#Humor
#Life
#New
#Tough Decisions
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