Famous quotes by Authors

"I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force"

William Blum, Author

"I need to write to be happy"

Nora Roberts, Author

"Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women"

Nora Roberts, Author

"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them"

John Shirley, Author

"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington"

William Greider, Author

"So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times"

Jack Vance, Author

"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously"

Barbara Deming, Author

"The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined"

Neal Barnard, Author

"With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species"

Anthony Storr, Author

"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile"

Robert Cormier, Author

"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature"

Sarah Orne Jewett, Author

"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique"

James MacGregor Burns, Author

"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life"

Suze Orman, Author

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course"

Wally Lamb, Author

"I need this wild life, this freedom"

Zane Grey, Author

"When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom"

John Gray, Author

"I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"I will see this game of life out to its bitter end"

Zane Grey, Author

"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship"

William Blum, Author

"In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either"

Neal Barnard, Author

"I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude"

Michael Chabon, Author

"The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be"

Mark Bittman, Author

"It distresses me that parents insist that their children read, or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

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