Gattuso Distributing Quotes

#1. If you can't love or hate your characters then walk away from the keyboard. If they aren't real enough to elicit emotion in you, then they certainly won't elicit emotion in the reader.

Julie Harvey Delcourt

#2. Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

Mary Shelley

#3. Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?

Stephenie Meyer

#4. I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Mini Grey

#5. cheatin' a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin' a white man

Harper Lee

#6. We would understand much more about life's complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time
on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Jose Saramago

#7. Where I come from you don't get to call a scene a scene until someone pulls out a knife or starts throwing broken beer bottles.

Jayne Castle

#8. Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.

Elena Ferrante

#9. Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Matthew Specktor

#10. Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

Meir Soloveichik

#11. Donald was verging on the sad realization that humanity had been thrown to the brink of extinction by insane men in positions of power following one another, each thinking the others knew where they were going.

Hugh Howey

#12. Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

Virginia Wade

#13. Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.

Howard Wilkinson

#14. I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

Edmund White