Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Charles R. Swindoll

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

Dennis Prager

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can

Dean Koontz

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is meant to be lived.

Eileen Caddy

Our life is our own creation.

Edward Abbey

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Deepak Chopra

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

Patrick Mason

Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.

Will Rogers

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Millar

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Theodore Roethke

Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Larry Brown

Let's see what happens with the MRI and go from there. We're not going to do anything foolish.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Brian Dawkins

Moss is spectacular, we all know that. But with me waiting over the top for him most of the afternoon, you could see the frustration in his eyes, in the way he ran his routes. That's not something that happens with T.O. Every route run is hard and crisp. Every possession has an intent to it.