Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Bethenny Frankel

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Gwen Stefani

I have learned to delegate.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Henry A. Kissinger

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

Emily Giffin

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

Oliver Cromwell

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

Philippa Gregory

I have learned the power of surviving.

Terry Tempest Williams

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Edmond de Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Craig Brown

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

Andrew Hudson

We're in a good situation. We just try to keep everybody healthy as much as we possibly can. Because everybody deals with that.

Bella Heathcote

I definitely don't get recognized so I don't have to deal with that.

John Howard

What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.

Andrew Gray

Until there is reform, we're going to continually have questions about these deals moving forward.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

Bill Hybels

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Mickey Maurer

We have a robust pipeline of deals right now.

Freya Stark

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has.