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.

Alice McDermott

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

John Walton

Unfortunately, the truth is the reason they may have taken this position because they really can't lose. Even if they lose the case altogether, people who have heard of the case will be picking up their book. And one of the authors already has a new book coming out.

Tracy Kidder

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Edward Kitsis

At the time it was airing, Claire had been kidnapped. So instead of hearing her husband was a little nervous, she just went, 'So Claire comes back? You just ruined it for me!' To this day, my wife refuses to hear anything about 'Lost.' She just wants to watch it.

Richard Branson

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

Taylor Momsen

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Ronald D. Moore

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Sojourner Truth

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I’m Acheron’s Squire’ part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)

Lisa See

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

John Fahey

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Jeffrey Lichtman

This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Christopher Meyer

There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Marlon Brando

At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Dan Rather

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Scott Hatteberg

It was tough. There were some plays we needed to make that would have kept us out of some of those big innings. You've got to stay away from them, especially in this ballpark.

Martin Straka

It was tough, especially the 5-on-3. You've got to score in playoff games. We kept talking about plugging away.

Craig Counsell

It was a long night for the umpires, too. I was only mad because he kept insisting he was right.

Anne Wallace

The water tastes fine, ... There?s no smell or anything. But I kept wondering. I wonder if it?s OK. I wonder if it?s OK.

Peter Beutel

This is a postcard from another country. If only we could have kept these numbers without the hurricane, this would have been a real sign of hope.

Beth Wilson

This is the first study we've done with (the program). So it was a learning process, and because of it, we kept the study very simplistic this time.

Demond Garth

That tells you something about him right there. He never let up once. He kept us focused, encouraging his teammates to keep on fighting. They did.

Mike Matheny

That's why you keep veteran pitchers here. He kept us rolling and kept his composure. He's versatile, ageless.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

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.

Dominic Cooper

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Christina Ricci

I don't have life rage anymore.

Homer

His descent was like nightfall.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Dean Martin

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

David Attenborough

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

Studs Terkel

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

Ricky Williams

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

Patricia Briggs

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Paulo Coelho

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Mark Twain

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.