Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Judith Guest

I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people.

Ana Castillo

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Russell Hoban

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

John Barth

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Scott Turow

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Caleb Carr

I haven't always done things this way. It's the nature of the two books. They have been so consuming that I end up living inside them.

John Hawkes

In my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Rick Moody

I'm trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me.

Robert Stone

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Orhan Pamuk

The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.

Mark Helprin

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

William Styron

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Donna Tartt

The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them.

Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Edmund White

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

Rick Moody

You don't have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

John Hawkes

Once I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

Andrew Niccol

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

Robert Stone

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

David Leavitt

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

Ellen Glasgow

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Mary Grandpre

It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up.