Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

Tracy Kidder

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.

Mercedes Pascual

I did find evidence for an increase in temperature, which the authors of the previous paper said was not there.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

David Macinnis Gill

Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.

Daniel Suarez

Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.

George MacDonald Fraser

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

Isabella Rossellini

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.

Malorie Blackman

I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Gary Walker

Man, I remember there was a fight involving about 30 players my rookie year, and I was scared to death I was going to be fined $7,500. My paycheck wouldn't have covered it. I got off with a warning, though.

John Nichols

Last year when I took this course, we had to cover the front of our masks with duct tape,

Glenn Cooper

LEAP is intended to help low-income residents pay their bills, not cover the whole amount. Of course, for the poorest of the poor, those with little or no income, we try to cover as much as possible.

Jackie Speier

Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed SB 375 into law,

Shannon Currier

Mike will be a very good cover corner(back). He has good speed and comes from an outstanding high school program.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But ""mousquetaire"" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter.

Jay Roberson

Mourning doves are ground feeders. They also are sight feeders, picking up visible seeds. They don't scratch or dig. When snow covers a field, they have a hard time foraging.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Tina Shipp

So many left when Dennis came, and then not much happened, so a lot of people decided to stay this time.

Jim Haslett

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Edwina Ashe

My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.