Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Abbey

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Ron Chernow

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Donna Leon

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

Sara Paretsky

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Oliver Herford

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Judith Martin

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous, and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Beverly Cleary

The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up.

Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

James A. Baldwin

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.

Robert Sheckley

So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.

Elizabeth Moon

So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.

Jack Vance

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Clifford Stoll

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Beverly Cleary

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

David Eddings

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

Alice Walker

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Nancy Friday

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nancy Friday

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

Nancy Friday

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Natalie Clifford Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Nora Roberts

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Edward Hoagland

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Fletcher Knebel

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Sara Paretsky

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

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