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KELLY JONES I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craf... JUSTIN BIEBER Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. JOHN CHEEVER Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
C.D. WRIGHT I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that s...
LAURA ANNE GILMAN
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APURVA GAGLANI The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
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AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always le...
PAMELA PAUL
I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a frie... SARA EVANS Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three...
DICK MEYER I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
ADAM LAMBERT
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. CLIFF FADIMAN
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ... HENRY BROOKS ADAMS
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ANONYMOUS
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any... STEPHAN GRELLET
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com... W. GLADDEN
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. PATRICA FRIPP
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. HENRY DAVID THOREAU
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. JAMES T. FARRELL
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. WALTER BAGEHOT
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. AUSTIN PHELPS
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ED HOWE
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. FRAN LEBOWITZ
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. FANNIE FLAGG
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th... UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...
M.R. JAMES
My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer. BRITTANY MURPHY
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to... KAGE BAKER I see myself as an entertainer.
BEN MEZRICH For outdoors I just want to try and have fun. I want to enjoy my senior year, have fun and run as fa...
DAN MCMANAMON All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen w...
PAMELA PAUL
I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon. CAM NEWTON I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
ALEX FLINN
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behi... STACIA KANE
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...... JOHN FOWLES We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an inter...
JAMES SHAPIRO
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior tex... HAROLD BLOOM Fierce for the right, he bore his part in strife with many a valiant foe; but laughter winged his po...
WILLIAM WINTERS The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, c...
PATRICIA DUNCKER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. AMAN JASSAL I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.
JUDY BLUME
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have non... HARUKI MURAKAMI
The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally a... KIM CATTRALL
A teacher is better than two books GERMAN PROVERB A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart.
JAIME CONTRERAS Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what...
ALBERTO MANGUEL
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole pic... BUCHI EMECHETA The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
RUTH FORD ELWARD You and I. We’re going back. People are dying because of this beast. It must be stopped. And we wi...
RUTH FORD ELWARD He couldn't move. Running would get him killed. Fighting would get him killed. …Standing where he ...
RUTH FORD ELWARD
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t... JACKIE COLLINS A writer has to have an imagination- that's what makes a writer. She has to be able to put herself i...
WYKETHA K PARKMAN I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look ...
CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth...
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Between earth and heaven, this woman must be the most evil and the most hated person ever, yet betwe...
FENG NONG
Life is in different stages. Every stage of life is the foundation for the next stage of life....
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and m... GERALDINE BROOKS
Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I think the truth is black-and-white. NANCY GRACE I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA
The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, e... ROSANNA PANSINO
But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ... LEBRON JAMES I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just...
WYCLEF JEAN
My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music ... GLORIA ESTEFAN I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My ...
ARIEL WINTER
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and... RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa... GARY SHTEYNGART The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY
Calamity is man's true touchstone. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.A woman only needs to be avai...
MASTERS AND JOHNSON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. LICHTY AND WAGNER It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an e...
WATANABE AND AVAKIAN
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parame...
TROUBLE AND STRIFE
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