Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Williamson

I just try to write what I want to see. I tried to do that with 'Scream' and with 'Summer.' I just try to tell a compelling story.

Dan Simmons

I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.

Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Harry Mathews

I have to say my initial attraction to France, which happened on my first visit when I was a student at eighteen, was inexplicable.

Henry David Thoreau

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Herbert Croly

In the long run, consequently, the ordinary American will have nothing irremediable to complain about except economic and social inequalities.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jonathan Carroll

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Horatio Alger

I gave up my room on 34th St. because I had too many young callers who were unwelcome... For this reason please don't tell them where I am.

Jhumpa Lahiri

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

Barbara Deming

But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of punishment at the same time.

Dick Bruna

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Tavis Smiley

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy-I want to talk about the movie in a second-but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

Wally Lamb

I didn't know any schizophrenics. The most valuable information I got was from people with the disease and their family members.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Fred Saberhagen

Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.

Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

Dick Bruna

Then one day I thought it would be nice to try to draw that rabbit and make a little story of it - and that's how Miffy started.

Sara Teasdale

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Margaret Haddix

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.

Robert Asprin

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Robert Fitzgerald

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Richard Grant

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.

Paul Auster

The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work.

Michael Bergdahl

They don't teach the "Wal-Mart Way" at Harvard Business School!

Elizabeth Moon

There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

Ted Nelson

I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.

Vincent Bugliosi

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.