Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Wouk

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Thomas Wolfe

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

Faith Baldwin

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

William Styron

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Dalton Trumbo

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Dalton Trumbo

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

Armistead Maupin

I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.

Armistead Maupin

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.

Armistead Maupin

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

Armistead Maupin

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Armistead Maupin

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

Armistead Maupin

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

Armistead Maupin

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Armistead Maupin

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Armistead Maupin

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Orhan Pamuk

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Rick Moody

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

Sloan Wilson

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Paul Williams

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

Patricia Highsmith

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

Patricia Highsmith

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

Patricia Highsmith

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Patricia Highsmith

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

Patricia Highsmith

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.