Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna O'Brien

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Daniel Goleman

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Alice Sebold

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

Curtis Sittenfeld

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

China Mieville

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

China Mieville

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Kurt Vonnegut

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

Charles Dickens

Least said, soonest mended

David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Bo Burnham

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me...

David Hockney

I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

Audrey Meadows

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Arthur Golden

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

Billy Carter

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.