Alto Clef Sayings

#1. Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause.

Arnold Bennett

#2. But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.

Lois Lowry

#3. Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. I WOKE WITH a start, my head hurting, aching all over. For a moment I didn't know where I was. Indeed, I felt so fuddled I didn't even know who I was. Hetty Feather, Sapphire Battersea, Emerald Star? I had three names now.

Jacqueline Wilson

#5. It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it.

Charles Dickens

#6. A rich man is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.

Unknown

#7. We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

Benjamin Carson

#8. At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

Tabitha Suzuma

#9. I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Chris Abani

#10. Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen.

Isabella Rossellini

#11. One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

Michael Scheuer