Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired.

Sarah Zettel

So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own.

Nora Roberts

Now, I'll say this. I've never taking a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me.

Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Gregg Easterbrook

ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own.

Kevin Williamson

There's going to be a trailer in the theater like this coming summer, and it is just going to be a black screen, and all you will hear is that music.

Robert Sheckley

There's no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week.

Steven Brust

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

Steven Brust

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

Steven Brust

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Joan D. Vinge

The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point.

Jared Diamond

Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.

Oliver Herford

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.

Richard Grant

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Jonathan Carroll

The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.

Margaret Halsey

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spent one frenzied day interviewing producers, and ended up choosing Universal and Larger Than Life productions. It all happened in two days.

Sara Paretsky

I've been married for many years to a physicist who's been about as supportive and encouraging of my work as any partner could be.

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Russell Banks

The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack.

Mickey Spillane

When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take.

Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

James Beard

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Vincent Bugliosi

For the first time in my literary career I have not gotten on the main talk shows in the morning. This year, I was turned down on all three shows.