Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

William Kent Krueger

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

Vikram Seth

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

John Boyne

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

Dan Kammen

The assumptions made by some of the authors were not based on the best data, or were just a little bit too convenient, and had a strong impact on the results.

Scott Turow

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

Paul Fleischman

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

Paul Kane

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Mikhail Sholokhov

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Magic Johnson

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

Ogden Nash

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Arthur Hiller

People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.

Alice McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

Jim McLaughlin

I have a fond place in my heart for Arcadia and always will. I am a small-town guy and I love Arcadia.

Marshall Curry

Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.

Mary C. Jones

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Dennis Hutchinson

He doesn't seem to be very fond of them.