Blockbusting Quotes

#1. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Anthony Burgess

#2. I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

Tayari Jones

#3. The trip to Ireland ... ' her father was saying.
'Is to determine his legitimacy,' Wyndham confirmed. And then, with a morbidly jolly expression, he continued, 'It's going to be quite a party. Even my grandmother is going.

Julia Quinn

#4. For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

Gael Monfils

#5. Men are terrified of him. Global organizations haven't been able to kill him. And yet when his cock is in my mouth, he gives me all the power. I could get drunk on that power I have over him. I could get off on that power too. I want my James.

J.A. Huss

#6. I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

Venus Williams

#7. Courage of the heart is very rare," she said with sudden calm. "Let it guide you.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. Is not all creation a transgression?

Gilbert Simondon

#9. I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

Nick Antosca

#10. It's strange. I felt less lonely when I didn't know you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner