Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jojo Moyes

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

Len Deighton

I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.

John Edwards

I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate.

Plaxico Burress

Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.

Blair Horner

I think it gives him huge leverage because lawmakers want to have the programs they want funded actually get funded. If there is any possibility for a good faith negotiation, people will want to take it up, but I'm just not sure that there is.

Chris Davis

He just wanted our input. He put faith in us.

Greg Brenneman

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

Mikhail Bakunin

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave, how can you get faith in the ocean?

Atharva Veda

Have faith in Him; He will never give you up; He will guard and guide you until victory is won.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Waris Ahluwalia

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Taylor Hawkins

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Steve Bigam

The only thing that didn't work out was we lost.

Lord Warner

What we've got to work on is the rest,

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.