Creasey's Quotes

#1. A man can be an artist ... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

Christopher Walken

#2. Isn't it odd, how strangers come over the threshold and you never know what they might become...

Sarah Perry

#3. It takes patience and perseverance to discover precious jewel of greatness in a landmine of dirt. And when found, it is worth it

Josephine Akhagbeme

#4. He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Harvey Keitel

#5. But I'm expected. Palfrey. I - " "Oh, yes, sir! Better not try to get the jeep along the street, though Mind

John Creasey

#6. Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

John Creasey

#7. Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.

Nikki Rowe

#8. Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

Constance Rourke

#9. Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

Paula Cole

#10. Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes
not often, but sometimes
the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

Matthew Scully

#11. The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

#12. If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.

Sheila Walsh

#13. We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

Peter Kreeft

#14. God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

Billy Sunday

#15. How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

John Creasey

#16. Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Michael Bergdahl

#17. Believe that you can do it cause you can do it.

Bob Ross

#18. Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.

John Creasey