Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Doug Aitken

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

J. Michael Straczynski

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

Marshall McLuhan

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

J. J. Abrams

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Jonathan Ames

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Ted Rall

I'm a better polemicist in prose.