Rose McIver Quotes

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Variety of characters and themes bring out the best in me.

All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and actors - as much as I can.

Playing with Tom Watson, I grew up a little bit. Even if he didn't say something to you, even if he didn't give you advice, you have grown up just watching him. It was great.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.