Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amos Oz

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Charles Palliser

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Vinod Thomas

We have more scientific know-how today than we did before. We know the vulnerability; we know the hot spots. But prevention is far more the exception than the norm.

Max Gartner

With the exception of women's slalom, I think we have a medal shot in every event.

Harley Dale

With the exception of Sydney, which is still very weak, there is no feeling that a substantial pull-back is in the offing for the housing industry over the next 12 months.

Toye Taylor

With the exception of one or two people, all (32) are new people to participate (in government). There is a new excitement and a new momentum for Washington Parish.

Chris Curry

With the exception of one of our recent losses, we've been playing some solid volleyball. Hopefully, we'll keep this going.

Jerry Schartner

With the exception of North, there wasn't any place where we didn't have to do a lot of scouting.

Wendy Roberts

With the exception of a little plateau here or there, they have pretty much gone up steadily