Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Charles Dickens

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Charles Dickens

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

Charles Dickens

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Charles Soule

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Charles Stross

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

Charles Stross

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Charles Stross

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Dan Stevens

I don't know much about my biological background.

J. I. Packer

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Helen Thomas

I'm of Arab background.

Jodie Foster

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

Coco Lee

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

Piper Perabo

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.