Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Morpurgo

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

Niall Ferguson

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Tom Jackson

Like a perfect tennis serve, a perfect golf swing or a perfect omelet, a perfect resume takes more effort than simply copying what others do,

Random House

No downloading, printing or copying will be permitted.

Shai Agassi

We all talk about how great Linux is, ... But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.

Billy Corgan

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Greg Dierks

I think this year, she's going to have a hard time copying the offense she had last year. If she can match her numbers from last year, that would be great, but I think pitching-wise, she's going to improve some things and be more consistent.

Kimberly Stewart

I'm sick and tired of you copying me. I don't want a clone.

Gwen Stefani

I'm stupidly crazy for old movies. I (record) them so that when I'm doing my makeup in the morning, I have them on. I can be like: 'Look at Jane Russell in that shiny leopard dress - I'm copying that.'

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Charlotte Bronte

He made me love him without looking at me.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Jane Wagner

The truth can be made up if you know how.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Chetan Bhagat

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.