Beast By Donna Jo Napoli Quotes

#1. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

James Callis

#2. I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

Joy Fielding

#3. All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

J.A. Konrath

#4. By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.

Jane Goldman

#6. I always want to stretch myself and do something that I haven't done before.

Connie Britton

#7. Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism ... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

Harry S. Truman

#8. I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

Michelle Shocked

#9. Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Nikki Sixx

#10. You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

Nevil Shute

#11. Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

Nelson Mandela

#12. Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

John Fowles