Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chantal Claret

There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue equipment and Gil Norton.

Dorothy Dunnett

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Struan Robertson

We wanted to provide as much of a simulation of the golf swing as we could without making the game as tough as the real sport. Professional golfers have a huge variety of shots available, not just shots they choose from a menu before they play them. We've made the analogue swing even more analogue.

Rob Enderle

The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

Teju Cole

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year.

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Michael Shore

It's as formal as trading securities on the stock market.

Cheryl Fey

This is their job, and they're paid as we sell their work. And it's pure art. They have no formal training or knowledge. It's what comes out of their heads and their souls.

Arlen Specter

There's been more controversy before this nominee has uttered a formal word than I have ever heard,

Alan Faneca

It's back at the hotel. I didn't realize this was a formal occasion.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Holly Armstrong

Technically, the recommendation is part of the governor's decision-making process and should remain with the governor until she makes her formal announcement.

John Paquette

We're acknowledging that a mistake was made on the play. We don't have a formal statement on it.

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Dave Attell

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

Evan Dando

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Charles Dickens

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Sylvester McCoy

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

Stella Pence

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Laurie Levenson

We don't usually think of them as literary giants.

Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Mason Cooley

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

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

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

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.

Austin Grossman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

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.

Cherrie Moraga

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Bible Bible

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

Randy Pausch

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Fred Mitchell

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Jean Fontaine

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Andrew Pyper

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Wylie

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Angelique Kidjo

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Jim Davis

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Olga Kurylenko

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.