Atheneum Books Quotes

#1. Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

John Corey Whaley

#2. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

Tony Goldwyn

#3. I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#4. Sono pazzo di te," he whispered, leaning forward,

Mary Calmes

#5. It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.

David Ignatius

#6. My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

Ryu Murakami

#9. Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

Bruce Campbell

#10. People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

Brooke Shields

#11. There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

Michael Arrington

#12. Warrior, when you pledge yourself to the service of a High Priestess, the goal is not to frighten her to death but to protect your lady from death.

P.C. Cast

#13. I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

Mara Wilson

#14. The best fiction is true.

Kinky Friedman

#15. Find as much information about your subject as you can

Sunday Adelaja

#16. I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

Clement Freud