Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Bugliosi

For the first time in my literary career I have not gotten on the main talk shows in the morning. This year, I was turned down on all three shows.

Manute Bol

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

John Shirley

I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint the universe as it is - both sides of it.

I do think there is passion and there is interest in hockey. Now the question is, can you translate that throughout a season. We think so.

I do write a little SF in my spare time.

Jacqueline Susann

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

Dick Bruna

However, my father was a publisher and it was expected that I would become a publisher as well - in his firm.

Michael Chabon

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Michael Chabon

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

James Beard

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Russell Banks

So far I've been very lucky in that stories have come to me like a thunderstorm, unexpected, full of darkness and energy demanding all my attention.

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Michael Chabon

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

Mark Twain

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

I was very touched, pleased and at the same time rather saddened by how sensitive the young people are to the need to build up a future.

Harry Mathews

I went to Harvard because I disliked Princeton so much - I spent a year and a half there. I didn't leave Harvard early; I actually finished.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Keith Miller

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

Margaret Halsey

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Jack Vance

I don't have much vanity. I just know what I do. I just do because I'm capable of doing it and do it easily without any pretentiousness.