Klemmer Books Quotes

#1. [ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

Gore Vidal

#2. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

Aga Khan IV

#3. a tree with more fruits bends more.

Jack Canfield

#4. I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

Cassandra Clare

#5. I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.

Galileo Galilei

#6. I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

Simon Baker

#7. Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Matthew Henry

#8. The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.

Vishwas Mudagal

#9. You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Alasdair Gray

#10. I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.

John C. Calhoun

#11. The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

Laurie Anderson

#12. A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

Greta Van Susteren