Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Drew Carey

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Dudley Moore

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

Douglas William Jerrold

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Dalai Lama

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Dodie Smith

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Desmond Tutu

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Terry Pratchett

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

Karen Joy Fowler

Each of us has a private Austen.