Authors Behaving Badly Quotes

#1. My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#2. I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

Mili Avital

#3. I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

Gorilla Zoe

#4. My eyes will always find you in a crowd.

Kimberly Lauren

#5. When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

Natan Sharansky

#6. You are a total bitch with no humor. Please go get treatment and ENJOY my latest novel!!!! You old crow!"

[Response to a review of her book]

Susan Reinhardt

#7. A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

Jeremy Aldana

#8. I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

John Major

#9. Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

Michael Nutter

#10. My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Chet Faker

#11. This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.

Felipe Alfau

#12. Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

Gale Norton

#13. Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

Maria Young Dougall

#14. The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

#15. We write our deepest thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita