Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Benjamin Rush

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

Robert Gottlieb

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.

M. J. Rose

I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

Julia Glass

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

Mal Peet

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

M. J. Rose

I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Ronnie Brown

I think it was still helpful having someone else in the backfield.

Arlen Specter

I think we can get materials which will be helpful to us,

Geoff Mayfield

The Internet is also a helpful promotional vehicle for selling physical albums. It reinforces for people that (an artist) has something new to sell.

Bina Ramani

The Commissioner has been very helpful and has offered us protection. We will take it when we want.

Jerry Dubrowski

It's really not helpful to have that up-10, down-10

Jeffrey Greene

Support groups, such as Narcotics Anonymous, seem to be helpful as an adjunct, but they don't work as the sole source of treatment,

Bob Lafferty

They were also very helpful too because they told you what the different officers were seeing and feeling.

Robert Moore

They've just been so helpful from every aspect. They make sure we have a comfortable stay and make sure we learn something this semester,

John DeVries

Katie was playing well. She'd get herself open and put herself in position to score ... she makes things happen.

Jeremy Baker

Kate Moss has got to suffer, throw herself to public opinion and plead for mercy, and then she can rebuild her career.

Tina Deese

Holly was big. She was in the pen, and I told her to get herself right physically, get herself right mentally, and she did. She did that very well.

Debi Bell

I really wanted her to succeed. She had such high standards for herself and (her son).

Stephen Gillers

The justice is a law into himself or herself on that issue.

Kent Evans

It was just a boy's name, ... Even in the movie, (the name Madison is) a joke. She named herself after Madison Avenue. But that's where it comes from.

Owen Meredith

Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man

Debbie Dool

She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself.

Doug Caskey

This is a self-imposed imprisonment because she shuts herself away to write to try to make sense out of her life.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Sonia Johnson

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Tim Berners-Lee

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Rick Riordan

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Janet Fitch

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Luis Suarez

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

Brad Wilkerson

He can hit. It's not like you're sending an out up there every time.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

John Husing

If it works the way everyone thinks it will, we should be OK.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

William J. Clinton

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Lucy Liu

I'll play Charlie's granddaughter. We're turning it all on its head.

Pico Iyer

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

Elizabeth Fishel

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Dawn French

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Victoria Principal

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

Bob Greenly

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

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.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Liam Neeson

I think: 'Why do I have to do it? What's it going to prove?' After all, it's the work that counts.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

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.