Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ibrahim Hooper

It's irresponsible for the top elected official in any state to suggest blanket wiretapping of houses of worship.

Carolyn McCarthy

and here we are giving them (the industry) blanket immunity.

George Carlin

a blank slate -- and you get to play.

John Carey

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

Chad Scaling

We squandered three great (scoring) chances early in the first half. Two times we were at point blank range and failed to capitalize.

Douglas Adams

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds

Al Goldman

A wet blanket was provided by the Palm offering.

Scott Hartnell

The shots we had were right there, point blank and tonight we buried them.

Simon Mawer

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Stephen Vizinczey

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'