Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Burroughs

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

Gertrude Stein

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Robert Fitzgerald

When I went to work I had nothing but my own Greek in my own hand before me to try to match with English in the blank lines underneath the Greek.

Dan Simmons

Finally, there's the simple fact that I would be bored silly if I read in only one genre or one type of author - so why write in only one form?

Nora Roberts

First, I really believe that since writer is a term without genre, a good one should be able to write believable male and female characters.

David Brin

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Chaim Potok

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Chaim Potok

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Frank Yerby

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

Frank Yerby

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Robert Cormier

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

Ron Chernow

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

R. A. Salvatore

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

R. A. Salvatore

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

R. A. Salvatore

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

R. A. Salvatore

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Daniel Yergin

But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game.

Alice Hoffman

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

Michael Connelly

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

Brian Tracy

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Brian Tracy

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

Reed Hastings

We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

Tony Robbins

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Fred Saberhagen

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.