Irving Wallace Quotes

#1. The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

#2. Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

Wayne Dyer

#3. Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Irving Wallace

#4. Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

Irving Wallace

#5. Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.

Carolyn Weber

#6. When you are a free and independent writer, without employer, without hours or deadlines, you have to play little games to force yourself into the actual writing. For me, one game is to announce...that I have finally decided on my next book, that I am ready to write it...to put my pride on the line.

Irving Wallace

#7. I leaned down, grabbing his face and pulling it to mine, letting myself kiss him with every failed hope, lost dream, every frustrated moment of low self-esteem, every hidden, dark, secret, shameful thing. I kissed him like therapy. Like I could pour it all into him and finally be free.

Jessica Gadziala

#8. And in her dream Coraline saw that the sun had set and the stars were twinkling in the darkening sky. Coraline stood in the meadow, and she watched as the three children (two of them walking, one flying) went away from her across the grass, silver in the light of the huge moon.

Neil Gaiman

#9. There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see the woman you love, the one woman you would do anything to protect, is the woman who is afraid of you.
It broke his heart.

Mallika Nawal

#10. India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

Rahul Gandhi

#11. It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

Ben Shahn

#12. A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

Greta Salpeter

#13. To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Irving Wallace

#14. If you talk about it, you probably won't write it

Irving Wallace

#15. If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Sylvia Plath