Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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.

Dan Simmons

Finally, there's the simple fact that I would be bored silly if I read in only one genre or one type of author - so why write in only one form?

Nora Roberts

First, I really believe that since writer is a term without genre, a good one should be able to write believable male and female characters.

Daniel Yergin

But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game.

Alice Hoffman

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

Michael Connelly

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

Brian Tracy

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Brian Tracy

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

Mary Higgins Clark

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Howie Carr

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Howie Carr

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Michael Chabon

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Dick Bruna

I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.

Beverly Cleary

My books take place in a very specific neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It must be the most stable neighborhood in the United States.

Charles Phillips

You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn't going to have anything to do with that mess.

Zig Ziglar

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

Keith Miller

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

We've had enormous struggles on the baseball front.

Paula Danziger

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Richard Carlson

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

Mary Martin

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Alice Walker

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

Zane Grey

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

Zane Grey

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

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.