June Boatwright Book Quotes

#1. Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Truman Capote

#2. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Roseanne Barr

#3. I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

Ike Turner

#4. His lips rise. "I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick." I think he just called me stupid.

Krista Ritchie

#5. However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. One flub, one little mistake, could ruin everything.

Embee

#7. Forgive, but don't forget

Tupac Shakur

#8. Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Sigmund Freud

#9. Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.

Philippos Syrigos

#10. One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

Susanna Kearsley

#11. Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself into a solid lump of silicon if it thinks it's being tampered with. Who knows what the military version of the fail-safe is? Drop the magnetic bottle in the reactor? Turn us into a supernova?

James S.A. Corey

#12. At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

Padma Lakshmi