Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Seigel

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Liana Wallace

One of the things we are hearing from parents is that this is a much-needed facility for teenagers, where they can go for entertainment and are not hanging out somewhere, getting into trouble.

Christopher Dixon

One school says that they (Japanese) will be very fascinated by it. The other says that it will be treated politically. My view is that the Japanese are always very interested in American entertainment products.

Margot Robbie

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Ken Warwick

No one can say that guy wasn't entertaining.

Terry Carter

More than 5,000 tickets were purchased for the event that was originally scheduled in July. We want everyone who is holding a ticket to know their ticket will get them into this major entertainment celebration on Friday, October 28th,

Joe Ross

My goal is to entertain people so they have a good time.

Jay Ryan

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Sean McManus

Maybe it's partially because of my sports background, but I am unbelievably competitive. Being in third place, whether it's sports, entertainment or news, is not acceptable.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

David Mitchell

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

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Jane Smiley

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

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

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.