Authors Note Quotes

#1. Today I was reading a book about a movie that I thought I could relate to. I read approximately the first 15 words, before I realized that the authors note won't tell me much about the pages ahead of it.

Andrew King

#2. I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.

Chris Hardwick

#3. He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.

Ransom Riggs

#4. Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Mark Twain

#5. The sum of things there is no power can change,
For naught exists outside, to which can flee
Out of the world matter of any kind,
Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring,
Break in upon the founded world, and change
Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.

Lucretius

#6. The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement ... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

#7. I prefer a story to a prayer.

Hannah Kent

#8. The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

George Jean Nathan

#9. Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#10. Gentlemen, let's go row!

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. Maybe we won't have the beauty of a perfect summer. But neither do we have to endure the callousness of an uncaring winter. Instead, we can all look for our own spring- we can discover where God wants to use us. Do you hear the whisper of spring?

Jody Hedlund

#12. Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.

Alma Katsu

#13. You can take the girl out of Mississippi but you can't take the Mississippi out of the girl.

Kristi Cook

#14. When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

Roger Ebert

#15. I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

Harold Ramis

#16. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

Pat Conroy

#17. Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each other intuitively.

Sahara Sanders

#18. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

Ashly Lorenzana

#19. Note from the authors: Yes, we have lost our minds. Be forewarned: You will lose yours too.

Mauerer, Wolfgang

#20. As for whether the magic in The Crown's Game is real, well . . . that depends. Do you believe in what you cannot see?

Evelyn Skye

#21. I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

Nash Grier

#22. This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Neil Gaiman