Disconcerts Quotes

#1. What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be exposed; they panic, because they don't know which bits are true.

Hilary Mantel

#2. Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Martti Ahtisaari

#3. The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.

Conrad Williams

#4. I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

Mireille Guiliano

#5. We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Arlo Guthrie

#6. Yes, but - but maybe I'm just tall for my height," said Carrot desperately. "After all, if you can have short humans, can't you have tall dwarfs?

Terry Pratchett

#7. I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

#8. Football is easy; I've done this since I was a baby. To me, that's not success. Success to me is being a world changer ... I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.

Brandon Marshall

#9. Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium.

Lisa Lutz

#10. That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

Joe Mantegna

#11. Because I know where everything in this room is. All the books, the papers-and the moment they start cleaning, those things get hopelessly organized and tucked away, and I can never find them again.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too,
So we're really not that different, me and you.

Collin Raye

#13. We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

Skitch Henderson