Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

James Patterson

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Keith Miller

When I share my reality with you and you don't fix me, we have been intimate because then you share your reality with me and I don't fix you.

Ken Kesey

We thought that by this time that there would be LSD given in classes in college and you would study it and prepare for it.

Marilyn French

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Tammy Bruce

We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it.

Gregg Easterbrook

I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I think there may be ways to tame the organizational beast, though I have hardly room in this essay to do more than suggest that such means exist.

Walter Lord

Just finding it, and as far as that went, I spent a good part of my life enjoying the study of the ship, ever since I was a little kid.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Shelby Foote

Loneliness is one of the best things in the world for you. You do something about it: read, for instance, all kind of things, make friends.

John Shirley

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Russell Banks

I think probably in the earlier parts of my career I was influenced by writers such as Hawthorne and Melville - the American classics.

Marguerite Young

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Dashiell Hammett

I still think you are a pain in the neck.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Michael Chabon

I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

Mark Twain

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

I was very touched, pleased and at the same time rather saddened by how sensitive the young people are to the need to build up a future.

Harry Mathews

I went to Harvard because I disliked Princeton so much - I spent a year and a half there. I didn't leave Harvard early; I actually finished.

Gregg Easterbrook

Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.

Robert Asprin

Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character.

Dan Simmons

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.