Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edmond de Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

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

Anne Morgan

She goes in disguise uptown to thieve in the homes of the rich. She's a survivor.

Miranda Hart

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

Sarah MacLean

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Billy Zane

I'm a superhero in disguise as a ne'er-do-well cad.

Richard Armitage

Now, whether it is the mobile labs or weapons disguised as industry, we are finding ... that the capabilities were even more dispersed and disguised than we had thought,

Stephen Hawking

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

John Casson

We've got three years of film to watch on him, so we'll be looking at that and figuring out things that we can try on him, ... You have to keep an eye on him wherever he goes. We'll try to disguise a few things up front, how many guys we're rushing, things like that. It's all a matter of keeping him guessing.

Gamaliel Bradford

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

Steven Gerrard

Statistics don't lie. I'm not going to disguise the fact that we need a poacher. The problem we have got is obvious.