Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kent Krueger

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

Wayne Bennett

He'll be playing. He's a got a cork or a quad strain but either way he's going to be right to play. We just didn't want Michael out their too long today, but he'll be fine.

Billy Hughes

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Chris Jones

Upon surgery, they discovered the wine cork from the New Year's Eve party.

Florentino Perez

I was a cork that needed to be popped to shake up the club.

Jim Laughlin

They'll flip it over, pop the cork and that spits out all the sediment.

Kevin Barry

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

Neil Hogan

You'd think you were in Cork again. You find those around the state a lot right now.

Marilyn Tam

Die by your own sword. Live by your principles. ... If you forget what's important to you, you'll be like a cork bobbing on the ocean.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Steve Boylan

The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone,

Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Sarah Pinborough

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

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

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.

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.

Ellen Potter

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

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.