Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sid Fleischman

Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

Emilio Estevez

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Frida Kahlo

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

Dee Hock

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Charles Baudelaire

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Thornton Wilder

I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

Rafael Vinoly

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

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.

Mark Pellegrino

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Alice McDermott

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

Darren Gibbs

It will be a while yet before we are printing better numbers.

Noam Chomsky

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

Peter Schiff

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

Jim Rogers

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

John McGahern

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

M. C. Escher

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

James O'Shaughnessy

The truth seems to love the small print.

Charles Revson

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Chris Perry

They need to start printing the called-back plays, ... taking those into consideration or something.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Forrest Gump

Just stay a little longer.....Okay Jenny I'll stay.

Richard McIntyre

Hamid took him as a brother. He let him stay at his house.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Larry Pleau

He's going to stay with the organization for a long time.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Nico Melendez

It is a continual progression. We need to stay one step ahead.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,