Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Darabont

Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Elbert Hubbard

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Val McDermid

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

Cathleen Schine

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

Val McDermid

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

Chris Bohjalian

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Naomie Harris

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

Sophie Hannah

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

George Romero

If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.

A. N. Wilson

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Andy Enright

I woke up for about a minute, and I remember seeing Austen lying on the ground. I was so mad I couldn't help him. I felt paralyzed. I tried to tell him I loved him, but I couldn't talk.