Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Lindskold

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

William Hazlitt

If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

Steve Frasher

Valdez fired at Miranda's home, thinking it was the person he was trying to retaliate against. The intended target was elsewhere on the same street.

David Stout

I didn't make any money, ... I paid my kid to go pump gas for them elsewhere just to keep them as customers.

Marcia MacClary

Frankly, it is unclear how this regional process would work and what would make it superior to the process we have today, which seems to work very well elsewhere in the country.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Neel Mukherjee

The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'

Greg Adkins

We'll be hurting if we don't get it done this year because people will go elsewhere to make more money and have better benefits.

Allard Baird

The reality is most of our players should be in Double-A or elsewhere in the minors,

William P. Leahy

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.

Nicola Sturgeon

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Heather Brooke

Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Manuscripts do not burn.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Manuscripts don't burn.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Mark Dindal

I said to everyone, you can send any notes you want, but notes that speak to this, what the movie's really about, those are the ones which are going to be helpful.

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.