Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Jordan

We have to find ways to limit his touches. Can we deny him more times, more possessions? When we do double, can we get out of the double team and get out to the shooters?

Ryan Toohey

The real insult to New Yorkers is denying that serious problems exist.

Maajid Nawaz

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Ken Marino

I'm not going to deny that I enjoy a good four or five hour karaoke session. But who doesn't?

Marion Barry

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!

Edward Abbey

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Elliot Mintz

So it would appear. Yes. I'm not going to deny that there was a split.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Alan Furst

Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?

Eleanor Catton

When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Otto Hahn

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Laura Linney

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

Adam Mansbach

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

Ruth Rendell

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

Kim Campbell

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.