Top 25 Harcourt Quotes
#1. Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'
Robert Giroux
#2. I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.
Rose McIver
#3. is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger
#4. It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.
David Suchet
#5. You're lucky, spontaneous, and your guardian angel is overworked and way underpaid." "I know, right? My angel walks into a bar and the other angels are like, 'Oh shit, that's the poor sap that's got Jory Harcourt. Look at him, he started drinking again.
Mary Calmes
#6. Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: "If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product." My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you're not a lady? she says.
Flannery O'Connor
#7. I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
Patrick DeWitt
#8. Laurence felt his face going red; she was sitting there in breeches that showed every inch of her leg, with a shirt held closed only by a neckcloth; he shifted his gaze to the unalarming top of her head and managed to say, Your servant, Miss Harcourt.
Naomi Novik
#9. Ready for the countdown,' shouted Winifred.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Lift off !
And the sleigh budged. Quite a bit.
Margaret Harcourt West
#10. If you decide to leave- when you decide to leave- don't do it without saying good-bye.
V.E Schwab
#11. I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
R.L. Stine
#12. Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
Jonathan Evison
#13. What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?
Katherine Dunn
#14. You guys are like drug dealers peddling adrenaline
Mary Calmes
#15. I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.
Alanis Morissette
#18. Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.
Greg Gutfeld
#19. With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.
Vhils
#20. Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.
Mort Kondracke
#21. Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.
G-Eazy
#22. There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.
Miley Cyrus
#23. When I open my eyes to a painting, it is as though everything has changed and will never be the same again. Colors look more vivid, the lines and edges of objects sharper, and I fall in love with the world and all its beauty - the tragedies and love stories on the faces of people walking by,
Eleanor Brown
#24. The surprise, for me, is that the accruing weight of these departures doesn't bury us, and that even the pain of an almost unbearable loss gives way quite quickly to something more distant but still stubbornly gleaming.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
#25. Perhaps I'm not made of glass after all. Perhaps I'm made of something stronger.
Maggie Harcourt
