Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Winsor

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Kathleen Winsor

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

Keith Miller

When we go out with the idea that we are going to fix somebody, then it communicates to them that they are inferior and it shames them.

Charles Phillips

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

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.

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.

Jane Roberts

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

James Lane Allen

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

James Lane Allen

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Shelby Foote

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

Robert Sheckley

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Robert Sheckley

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Dick Bruna

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

David Guterson

People were going to wonder about me, about who I am and what makes me tick, and with time I decided that it didn't really bother me to share that.

Laura Hillenbrand

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

Gregg Easterbrook

The publication date of that book was Sept. 10, 2001. That's why nobody's ever heard of it. Maybe I'll do another one in the future someday.

Dan Simmons

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

Mary McCarthy

Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mickey Spillane

But at my age, you start to get tired.

Sarah Zettel

My father was a major SF fan in the '40s and '50s, so the house was full of SF books. That's where I got my start and I never looked back.

Gregg Easterbrook

Neither Aristotle nor the Framers were known for self-indulgence. All believed that happiness is a legitimate goal in life; perhaps, one of the reasons we are here.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Jhumpa Lahiri

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.

I don't think you can say that the talks between us and the military have not yet resumed. I think you could say that dialogue has not yet started.

If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.