Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond E. Feist

I enjoyed the "people" aspect of sales, but the haggling, the rinding, the tedium... thanks, but I'll keep on writing if I'm permitted.

Richard Grant

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Dan Simmons

I have more respect for The Iliad now than I've ever had, and I've always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was.

Robert Cormier

I can't remember a time, really, when I haven't been a writer. Reading and writing were the two great escapes of my life and I suppose they still are.

Jack Vance

I don't have much vanity. I just know what I do. I just do because I'm capable of doing it and do it easily without any pretentiousness.

Kate DiCamillo

Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing.

David Harris

I can go a year before an oil change.

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.

Tony Robbins

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Fred Saberhagen

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.

David Brock

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

David Brock

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benjamin Hoff

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Dashiell Hammett

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Dashiell Hammett

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Dashiell Hammett

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

Dashiell Hammett

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

Dashiell Hammett

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Dashiell Hammett

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

Barbara Deming

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Elizabeth Moon

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

Elizabeth Moon

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

Elizabeth Moon

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

Edward Gorey

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.