Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gay Talese

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Gay Talese

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

Walter Lord

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Vincent Bugliosi

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Vincent Bugliosi

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

Vincent Bugliosi

Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Beverly Cleary

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

David Eddings

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

Alice Walker

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Nancy Friday

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nancy Friday

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

Nancy Friday

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Natalie Clifford Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Nora Roberts

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Benjamin Hoff

That was when I began to get an idea: to write a book that explained the principles of Taoism through Winnie-the-Pooh, and explained Winnie-the-Pooh through the principles of Taoism.

Michael Chabon

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

Richard Carlson

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

Richard Carlson

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Richard Carlson

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Richard Carlson

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Richard Carlson

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Sarah Orne Jewett

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Sam Keen

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Russell Banks

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Paul Auster

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

Mary Higgins Clark

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Keith Miller

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

We've had enormous struggles on the baseball front.

Paula Danziger

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.