Famous quotes by Authors

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years"

Jared Diamond, Author

"I personally am not conscious of my accent"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences"

Jane Roberts, Author

"I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor"

Emily Post, Author

"You create your opportunities by asking for them"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit"

Ken Follett, Author

"I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis"

Shelby Foote, Author

"There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation"

Jared Diamond, Author

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy"

Eudora Welty, Author

"A good title is the title of a successful book"

Robert C. Gallagher, Author

"If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing"

Shelby Foote, Author

"And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War"

Shelby Foote, Author

"Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"In violence, we forget who we are"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them, they don't exist"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel"

Chaim Potok, Author

"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts"

Mary Chesnut, Author

"I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

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