Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.
I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.
It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.
Rene, you want us to find you-don't-know-who and to retrieve his you-don't-know-what for you-won't-tell-me-whom?
Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.
If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?
You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.
I realize that even through the hard times I’m sure we’ll face, I’ll never be able to walk away from her. -Micha
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.