Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Katherine Paterson

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

Anton LaVey

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Robert Creeley

Form is never more than an extension of content.

Robert Creeley

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

Robert Creeley

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Cormier

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

Robert Cormier

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Richelle Mead

The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.

Woody Allen

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

William Moulton Marston

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

William James

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Sarah Brady

Halfway measures are not enough.

Richard Ford

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

Rich Mullins

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

Tullian Tchividjian

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Warren Buffett

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Michael Friedman

I was interested in seeing how the NHS would respond. I was thrilled when I was accepted.

Cheech Marin

I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

Grace Fey

I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of rising interest rates.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Steve Carell

Just the idea of him with a love interest is mind-boggling, ... I don't know how it could be handled.

Mark Latham

John is sure he's interested ? spoke to him about it during his trip to the West Indies last year,

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.