Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Gertrude Stein

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Gregg Easterbrook

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Gregg Easterbrook

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Gregg Easterbrook

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

Gregg Easterbrook

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Gregg Easterbrook

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Gregg Easterbrook

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

Gregg Easterbrook

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

Gregg Easterbrook

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Gregg Easterbrook

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

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.

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Michael Chabon

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.