Kay Hooper Quotes

#1. Sometimes reality is better than dreams

Kay Hooper

#2. Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Eduardo Galeano

#3. Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.

Kay Hooper

#4. There is no place suitable to my kind of mentality,

Erik Larson

#5. Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul

Kay Hooper

#6. To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

Michael Connelly

#7. Lucas remained where he was for several moments, then said to his partner, "I've never met anybody so goddamned stubborn in my life."

"Look in the mirror.

Kay Hooper

#8. I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.

Ernest Cline

#9. He gave her a sleepy, innocent smile. "What'd I do?

Thea Harrison

#10. I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

Kay Hooper

#11. Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

Gore Vidal

#12. Maybe that's what is means to be human ... forever questioning our certainties.

Kay Hooper

#13. We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn

Kay Hooper

#14. He decided not to try to pin her down on that; he had a feeling it was one he wouldn't win. He hadn't known Isabel Adams an hour before reaching the conclusion that she was extremely unlikely to let slip by accident anything she didn't want him to know.

Kay Hooper

#15. There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

Kay Hooper

#16. I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

Kay Hooper

#17. But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.

Kay Hooper

#18. Without understanding and respect, even love could turn into a trap all too easily

Kay Hooper