Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Marra

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

Charles Holmes

As far as I'm concerned the guy was crooked as a snake. Wyatt Earp was a deputy U.S. marshal at the time of the shootout. Virgil was a deputy U.S. marshal, and the chief of police...Morgan had been authorized as a constable...Wyatt Earp had warrants for these characters, and the sheriff had warrants for Wyatt Earp. So it was crazy the way things were done.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic

Joe Meno

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Kevin O'Connor

Any decent person, using their common sense would know they no longer have the authority to be in a homicide scene.

William Scott

The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about.

Lynn Coady

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

Edward Bastian

These losses emphasize the need for the urgency with which we have to pursue route network and revenue improvements and the use of the bankruptcy process to reduce the cost and complexity of our business.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

E. Hicks

We're a company in bankruptcy and have been operating on borrowed money.

Jim Donahue

Credit card companies, credit unions, many retailers, as well as the American people, have lobbied for bankruptcy reform for years.

Jon Cartwright

Bondholders need more details, but anything that would prevent a bankruptcy certainly would be a positive. It's hard to make this situation more complex than it is.

Karen Gross

While there are people for whom this is an easy ride, for the vast majority, bankruptcy is not an easy ride.

Bradley Belt

nothing in the bankruptcy code requires companies to skip their pension funding payments.

Jerry Weller

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Michael Ward

I don't think it gets them out of their obligations. They have to find solutions and I do not believe bankruptcy is an option.

Doug Leggate

Delivering volume growth is critical to the Exxon story -- but incremental margins are equally critical.

Stephen Campbell

Despite some very limited progress, the meeting was seriously hampered by the non-attendance of some critical countries.

Jim Scroggins

Despite this decades-long setback, America's fascination with lottery games would continue, as would the desire of states to find alternative methods of funding critical and worthy programs without raising taxes.

Cardinal Ratzinger

a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distance from contemporary culture.

Conrad Burns

are a critical element of the nuclear triad and represent our most responsive, stabilizing and cost-effective strategic force.

Andrea Baker

The Secretary of Education will decide which languages will be deemed critical to national security. My hunch is Spanish will not be one of them.

Colin Angle

The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.

Barbara Saunders

The thing that is critical is to develop a strategy and then make sure you stay on it,

John Margarita

The thing is we're young and we're going to make mistakes. We just have to hope we don't make critical mistakes that derail us. With so many young kids playing their first varsity games, we're really going to rely on our seniors.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Rumi

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

Rumi

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

Theodore Kaczynski

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Meg Cabot

You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.