Crummey Quotes

#1. I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.

Po Bronson

#2. The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John Le Carre

#3. I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon ...

John Geddes

#4. The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#5. The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?

Carrie Fisher

#7. IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life ... harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world.

Michael Crummey

#10. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

George Santayana

#11. I see Kayla dragged you into this."
I smiled at him. "No, sir, I just came to borrow a cup of sugar."
"Heh.

Ilona Andrews

#12. He wasn't a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.

Michael Crummey

#13. You are as valuable as what you carry in your mind and in your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

Harry S. Truman