Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Gayle Lynds

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Judy Kirkpatrick

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Sophie Kinsella

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

Robert Gottlieb

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

Janet Fitch

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

Richard K. Morgan

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Carl Erskine

Sometimes it seems the more you know, the less sure you are of yourself, ... I can just sit back and watch and not have to sweat it out for either side. What I know is, anything can happen in a short series.

Yoweri Museveni

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Marsha Blackburn

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Thomas Campion

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Roger Monson

Russia could go down 50 percent or up 150 percent. Either they do it or they don't.

Jonathan Coleman

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

Steve Erickson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Mark Richt

Quentin is thinking it all through before making a decision. I don't think either one is 100 percent sure about what he's going to do yet.

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.