Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Cormier

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

Ron Chernow

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

R. A. Salvatore

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

R. A. Salvatore

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

R. A. Salvatore

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

R. A. Salvatore

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Robert Fitzgerald

When I went to work I had nothing but my own Greek in my own hand before me to try to match with English in the blank lines underneath the Greek.

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take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer.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.

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.

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.

Willa Cather

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

Andrew Vachss

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Robert Asprin

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books.

Phil Crosby

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Phil Crosby

No one can remember more than three points.