It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

- John Burnside

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

- Philip Kerr

I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.

- Paula Hawkins

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

- Patricia Heaton

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

- Nicolas Chamfort

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

- Mohsin Hamid

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

- Mary Roach

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

- Lionel Blue

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

- Kelly McCreary

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

- Jack Nicholson

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

- Howard Rheingold

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

- Guy de Maupassant

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

- Francois Mauriac

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

- Doug Aitken

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

- Denis Leary

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

- Chelsea Clinton

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

- Carolyn Kizer

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

- Antonio Banderas