Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Moonves

I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,

Wong Kar-wai

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

Virginia Woolf

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Robert Stack

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Morley

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

Clyde Williams

In reality, we'll just become a ghost town if you take our high school away.

Shirley MacLaine

All those ghosts were hanging around. ... If I had been them, I would have gone to work,

Bill Whyde

The world is changing. People need to realize and Barstow needs to be more productive so it doesn't end up like Calico (a ghost town).

Jordan Haines

It was like a ghost town. No one made any noises.

Ted Ritter

It haunted him for the rest of his life. And he took it to his grave.

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

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.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mohsin Hamid

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Elizabeth Hardwick

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

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Rudyard Kipling

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Tracy Chevalier

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.