Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Katherine Paterson

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

Anton LaVey

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Robert Creeley

Form is never more than an extension of content.

Robert Creeley

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

Robert Creeley

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Cormier

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

Robert Cormier

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Willa Cather

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Witold Gombrowicz

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Marco Rubio

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

John McCain

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Rick Riordan

It's useless to lecture a human.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

William Shatner

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To hear, one must be silent.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

William Hamilton Maxwell

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

Jon Foreman

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Octavia Spencer

To be silent is to be passive.