Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stegner

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

John Cena

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

Eric Holder

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

Ornette Coleman

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Orhan Pamuk

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

Octavia Butler

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Novak Djokovic

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

Neil Young

In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

Rabih Alameddine

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

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."

Stephen Vizinczey

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.

Brian Brown

It got kind of wild there at the end.

Hector Carrasco

It is kinda frustrating, but that is the way it is sometimes.

Carmen Electra

I was a little nervous, 'cause for me, it's kinda like taking a big step and really doing something different,

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Richelle Mead

They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die." "You failed, you know. On the street." "Yeah. I kind of figured that out when I woke up here.

William Christopher Handy

Nature was my kindergarten.