Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Oliver Herford

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

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

Of course I do care about the way my music is performed and so I cannot really say that I am not interested in how it is received.

Robert Fitzgerald

Of course anything can happen, and as we know there are a great many examples of the other way of doing it, but I myself don't think I would enjoy it.

No one in the family played a musical instrument, we did not even possess one between us, all we had was a battered old gramophone, a 1920s model.

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.

James A. Baldwin

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

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.

Judith Martin

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

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.

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.

Harry Harrison

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Harry Harrison

I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.

Harry Harrison

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Gay Talese

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Gay Talese

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

Walter Lord

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Vincent Bugliosi

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Vincent Bugliosi

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

Vincent Bugliosi

Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

Annie Dillard

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