I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn&#...
E. L. JAMES I'm a bit of a control freak.
E. L. JAMES Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch televi...
E. L. JAMES I see myself as a story teller.
E. L. JAMES Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me l...
E. L. JAMES I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E. L. JAMES I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in ...
E. L. JAMES If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again an...
E. L. JAMES I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. JAMES I think women love to read love stories.
E. L. JAMES I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and ...
E. L. JAMES I'm not a great writer.
E. L. JAMES I came up with a story and I wrote it.
E. L. JAMES Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doi...
E. L. JAMES All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches...
E. L. JAMES Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
E. L. JAMES God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. JAMES I really like clever men who challenge you.
E. L. JAMES Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partner...
E. L. JAMES I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people readi...
E. L. JAMES I think women love a passionate love story.
E. L. JAMES The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a ma...
E. L. DOCTOROW The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wa...
E. L. KONIGSBURG When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I ...
E. L. KONIGSBURG Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let...
E. L. KONIGSBURG After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' ch...
E. L. KONIGSBURG Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I wr...
E. L. KONIGSBURG I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no ...
E. L. KONIGSBURG I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and ...
E. L. KONIGSBURG Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from...
E. L. KONIGSBURG I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.
E. L. KONIGSBURG I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and h...
E. L. KONIGSBURG When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a l...
E. L. KONIGSBURG Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousnes...
E. L. KONIGSBURG The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That&...
E. L. DOCTOROW I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I t...
E. L. DOCTOROW One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the p...
E. L. DOCTOROW I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
E. L. DOCTOROW I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to ...
E. L. DOCTOROW History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think o...
E. L. DOCTOROW A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You c...
E. L. DOCTOROW When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the windo...
E. L. DOCTOROW The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because ...
E. L. DOCTOROW There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. DOCTOROW Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. DOCTOROW I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers s...
E. L. DOCTOROW The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
E. L. DOCTOROW We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw...
E. L. DOCTOROW I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotat...
E. L. DOCTOROW Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're do...
E. L. DOCTOROW I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an...
E. L. DOCTOROW Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the paper...
E. L. DOCTOROW There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. DOCTOROW The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n...
E. L. DOCTOROW Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. DOCTOROW It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the w...
E. L. DOCTOROW I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. DOCTOROW Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
E. L. KONIGSBURG In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per...
E. L. DOCTOROW Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after s...
E. L. DOCTOROW The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude...
L. E. BLAZE You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the detail...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. DOCTOROW Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. DOCTOROW I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. ...
E. L. KONIGSBURG It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make t...
E. L. DOCTOROW Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the...
E. L. DOCTOROW Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution...
E. L. DOCTOROW Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated an...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can...
E. L. DOCTOROW Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
E. L. KONIGSBURG I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it t...
E. L. DOCTOROW In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per...
E. L. DOCTOROW If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men wh...
E. L. MASCALL Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 I do not w...
E. L. MASCALL Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are...
E. L. MASCALL Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Even the most traditional theologian wil...
E. L. MASCALL Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: In the rare cases where faith appea...
E. L. MASCALL Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: The critical scholar is not committe...
E. L. MASCALL Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: If we are prepared to admit, even as ...
E. L. MASCALL Feast of Mark the Evangelist There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about t...
E. L. MASCALL Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed t...
E. L. DOCTOROW Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
E. L. SIMPSON As the majestic pearl is formed inside a clam through much irritation, so are you being formed throu...
E. L. MCDOWELL Making decisions in anger is like spitting in the wind; it comes back and hits you in the face.
E. L. MCDOWELL Struggles are really opportunities for your next level.
E. L. MCDOWELL Boredom is the result of lacking focus.
E. L. MCDOWELL Prosperity is a mindset.
E. L. MCDOWELL The greatest challenge man will face is himself.
E. L. MCDOWELL State of mind determines destination.
E. L. MCDOWELL Take nothing or no one for granted, for what is predictable today will one day become unpredictable ...
E. L. MCDOWELL Build a man's ego and you'll win his favor; crush a man's ego and you'll receive much grief from him...
E. L. MCDOWELL Time is an advocate for truth.
E. L. MCDOWELL If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not ...
E. L. DOCTOROW We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. T...
E. L. DOCTOROW Not really, ... There is no Carl. I made him up.
E. L. DOCTOROW Its glory is all moonshine.
E. L. DOCTOROW So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted a...
E. L. DOCTOROW The wretched war had destroyed not only their country but all their presumptions of human self-regar...
E. L. DOCTOROW For some reason that excited me.
E. L. DOCTOROW History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a...
E. L. DOCTOROW Antagonists come with all life progression.
E. L. MCDOWELL Closed doors present other opportunities!
E. L. MCDOWELL Existence is the greatest opportunity one can have; so why settle for a mediocre state of being?
E. L. MCDOWELL Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing,...
E. L. DOCTOROW We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and ner...
E. L. DOCTOROW The thing about this march is it was totally different than the rest of the war, as bloody and bruta...
E. L. DOCTOROW He was a brilliant man, a complex man. The march justified him as a military man, but he had a great...
E. L. DOCTOROW You could go for miles without seeing an end to the procession of troops and horses and wagons, ... ...
E. L. DOCTOROW You can't do that to Carl.
E. L. DOCTOROW It seemed to me so much more sensible to make something up than go through the tedious business of i...
E. L. DOCTOROW I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Mayb...
E. L. DOCTOROW I don't see any point in making a big fuss about it.  I just said, 'No, thank you.'
E. L. DOCTOROW My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest perform...
E. L. DOCTOROW You were my marital bliss,” he said to me this morning. “You can be again!” You know what I an...
E. L. NEVE The movie that changed my life,' he liked to say, by which he meant that it had changed his wardrobe...
E. L. NEVE I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
E. L. DOCTOROW Movies are too literal.
E. L. DOCTOROW I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had los...
E. L. DOCTOROW Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than ...
E. L. DOCTOROW I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleep...
E. L. DOCTOROW A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may ...
E. L. DOCTOROW My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the poi...
E. L. DOCTOROW Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather ...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
E. L. DOCTOROW I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. ...
E. L. DOCTOROW Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just sayi...
E. L. DOCTOROW I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discov...
E. L. DOCTOROW There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie Ma...
E. L. DOCTOROW Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that...
E. L. DOCTOROW I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
E. L. DOCTOROW In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
E. L. DOCTOROW When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
E. L. DOCTOROW To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
E. L. DOCTOROW My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
E. L. DOCTOROW I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
E. L. DOCTOROW People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
E. L. DOCTOROW My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to ...
E. L. DOCTOROW From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions tha...
E. L. DOCTOROW Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves gi...
JAMES E. FAUST The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our busin...
JAMES E. CASEY My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get care...
HAMILTON E. JAMES I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin...
HAMILTON E. JAMES It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.
JAMES E. FAUST We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
JAMES E. FAUST Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
JAMES E. FAUST In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and ...
JAMES E. FAUST Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of ...
JAMES E. FAUST I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His lov...
JAMES E. FAUST Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those o...
JAMES E. FAUST We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More informati...
JAMES E. FAUST Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the cen...
JAMES E. FAUST Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we...
JAMES E. FAUST To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires i...
JAMES E. FAUST If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness...
JAMES E. FAUST Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples...
JAMES E. FAUST Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in...
JAMES E. FAUST Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone fore...
JAMES E. FAUST As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs ...
JAMES E. FAUST As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful he...
JAMES E. FAUST Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and i...
JAMES E. FAUST If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise ...
JAMES E. FAUST A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern...
JAMES E. FAUST Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progres...
JAMES E. FAUST Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the command...
JAMES E. FAUST Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness ...
JAMES E. FAUST Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and...
JAMES E. FAUST A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation fo...
JAMES E. FAUST A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
JAMES E. FAUST In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of o...
JAMES E. FAUST Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication br...
JAMES E. FAUST What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It...
JAMES E. FAUST I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue ...
JAMES E. FAUST The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us....
JAMES E. FAUST If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity...
JAMES E. FAUST We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments...
JAMES E. FAUST Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delega...
JAMES E. FAUST The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latt...
JAMES E. FAUST I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacl...
JAMES E. FAUST The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and...
JAMES E. FAUST A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It me...
JAMES E. FAUST Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordi...
JAMES E. FAUST Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong ...
JAMES E. FAUST Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and...
JAMES E. FAUST To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perfor...
JAMES E. FAUST When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tab...
JAMES E. FAUST I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. Tha...
JAMES E. FAUST I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual g...
JAMES E. FAUST Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfill...
JAMES E. FAUST The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the w...
JAMES E. BURKE I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to ide...
JAMES E. FAUST Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life ...
JAMES E. ROGERS The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.
JAMES E. TALMAGE That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work wit...
JAMES E. GUNN It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
E JAMES ROHN We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment...
E JAMES ROHN It's not the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours that count.
E JAMES ROHN By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
E JAMES ROHN