1635 Bearing Quotes

#1. Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.

Michael Connelly

#2. I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

George Stephen

#4. For all of you who have signed on the dotted line and adopted a foster child, I personally thank you on behalf of a nation. I know it was not an easy thing to do.

Marcia Sindone

#5. The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

James Martineau

#6. To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

Emile M. Cioran

#7. The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

Conrad Black

#8. People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.

Brian O'Driscoll

#9. Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.

Susan Statham

#10. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive.

Neil Gaiman

#11. I try not to intellectualise what I do.

Phoebe Philo

#12. Once upon a time, there was only darkness. And there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it.

Laini Taylor

#13. Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Steven Heighton