Baker Anthologist Poetry Fiction Quotes

#1. It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

Dito Montiel

#2. I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Daniel Okrent

#3. Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

Shawn Amos

#5. Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

Tamora Pierce

#6. The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Jilly Cooper

#7. Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

#8. We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren't helping us directly.

Mark Steel

#9. Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Glenn Hughes

#10. People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

Rae Foley

#11. And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just masses of poetry. It's unstoppable, it's uncorkable. There's no way to make it end.

Nicholson Baker

#12. Bit by bit, man grows to strong.

Akinwale Musa Oluseun

#13. It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her
part happiness, part pride
and she relished it.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

Markus Zusak