Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled. – Dean Koontz
I’ve always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn’t say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I’ve always found exciting – the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships. – Gwendoline Christie
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don’t want my love of the game to involve business. – Garth Brooks
Now that I’m older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone. – Gia Coppola
If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness. – Matt Haig
I don’t think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota. – Gail Collins
I used to have a hat obsession, but unfortunately for me, I have a tiny head, which means most hats don’t fit very well. I do love them, though. – Emma Ishta
I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israel Defense Forces. I love our soldiers. If you feel the same way I do, you have a home. – Naftali Bennett
Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one’s own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited. – Michelle Paver
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I’ve never experienced it? – Maggie Grace
I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me. – Charice Pempengco
I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it. – Eric Church
I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn’t initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something – and it’s just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting. – Dexter Fletcher
I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is. – Michael Learned
Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they’re kind of know-it-alls – they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves. – Derek Cianfrance
I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There’s almost something balletic about it. – Michelle Ryan
When I was really little, my favorite book was ‘The BFG’. I read it – my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book. – Madison Pettis
I’m happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club’s in a really good position right now. – Frank Lampard
I’m born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I’m able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It’s cool because I get to turn it on and off. – Eiza Gonzalez
I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see. – Gina Prince-Bythewood
I consider myself very lucky. I’m known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography. – Douglas Kirkland
There’s this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I’ve never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I’m certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We’re human beings. – Derek Cianfrance