Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Akhil Sharma

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Chris Abani

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Cory Monteith

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Tim LaHaye

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Andy Richter

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Candice Millard

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Erica Jong

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Anthony Marra

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

Sean Taylor

Like any rivalry, there will be some great games. Fans will enjoy how hard these two teams will play.

Nancy Hague

Life is not supposed to be forever, so we gotta enjoy it while we're here. If you don't have fun in life, it's passing you by.

Leon Trotsky

life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest.

Corey Brewer

Let me enjoy this. Right now, I really don't care. I know we've got the national championship.

Ricky Carmichael

Loretta Lynn?s is a really special place for me and my family, and we go back to the race every year just to enjoy ourselves, ... Having them sponsor Team USA means a lot to me and my teammates.

Alan Curbishley

Let's enjoy it, especially to win it here. Winning as well made it a fantastic day.

Michael Barrett

Let's be truthful: The way the game has gone, it hasn't helped him. You can say what you want, but the guy has put up some incredible numbers, and he did a lot for this organization, and I enjoyed playing with him. That '98 season is a year that will never be forgotten, regardless of how you want to look at it.

Earl Nightingale

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Dont wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether its at work or with your family.

Rebecca Johnson

Many of them told us that they didn't necessarily walk in the study because they knew it was good for their health; they enjoyed walking because they knew it was good for the animals.