Krantz Quotes

#1. Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck.

Victor LaValle

#2. A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.

Laura Levine

#3. Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

David Foster Wallace

#5. On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Judith Krantz

#6. Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.

Sherrie Krantz

#7. One person should never decide what happens to the majority.

Kayla Krantz

#8. The moods he's shown me have all been vastly different...as different as summer and winter, sometimes with fall between them.

Kayla Krantz

#9. Similar to Churchill's view that "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried," although it is by no means a bulletproof theory, the CAPM is the best theory to explain the risk/return relationship that the greatest financial minds have been able to devise.

Matthew Krantz

#10. Killing is for those with a sick mind.

Kayla Krantz

#11. Luna had never been good at coping with death. After all she had gone through, she knew she should've been trained.
But she wasn't. She was regrettably human.

Kayla Krantz

#12. The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

Kayla Krantz

#13. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

Judith Krantz

#14. He had never actually said what he hunted, only that he enjoyed it.

Kayla Krantz

#15. knowing something is not believing...

Judith Krantz

#16. No matter what you think of me, I'm part of your thoughts. Even if you hate me, I'll live in your mind forever.

Kayla Krantz

#17. Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free.

Kayla Krantz

#18. Your friend will pay deeply for what he's done here tonight," Chance snarled once he wiped off most of the blood. "You can tell him to run as far and as fast as he can, I'll get him. Just let him know that once this is all over, it's just gonna be you and me and a world full of corpses.

Kayla Krantz

#19. she's offering me more cryptic phrases with a depth to them that even the top-ranked philosophers would have a difficult time decoding.

Kayla Krantz

#20. Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock, do not say hello or goodbye, do not ask what's for dinner, do not disturb me unless the police or firemen have to be called."

Judith Krantz

#21. A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem.

Steven G. Krantz

#22. It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.

Kayla Krantz

#23. Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.

Kayla Krantz

#24. It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.

Kayla Krantz

#25. History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different?

Kayla Krantz

#26. The rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

Judith Krantz

#27. You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

Judith Krantz

#28. When we force something to fit where it doesn't belong, it breaks. When surrounded by people who can't appreciate our beauty, humans essentially do the same.

Kayla Krantz

#29. I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

Judith Krantz

#30. It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

Judith Krantz

#31. I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

Judith Krantz

#32. Horse People may be heads of state or professionally unemployed in their private lives, but horses are their passion, as Jerusalem was the passion of the soldier in some ancient crusade. The cult of the horse as their idol is as central to their lives as cocaine is to some and applause is to others.

Judith Krantz

#33. Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination ... now my new book is about what really happened to me ... not my heroines.

Judith Krantz

#34. He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.

Judith Krantz

#35. Don't let them shape you into a cold-blooded killing machine. Don't let them turn you against the people you love.

Kayla Krantz

#36. She would have to work alone, and she was fine with that.

Kayla Krantz

#37. It's been so long, I don't remember what okay feels like.

Kayla Krantz

#38. If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

Kayla Krantz

#39. You broke the chain, Luna. Of all his victims, you were the only one that ever walked away and he hasn't forgotten.

Kayla Krantz

#40. He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.

Kayla Krantz

#41. Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.

Judith Krantz

#42. ...too many people in such a limited place only served to fuel her anxiety.

Kayla Krantz

#43. There had been trials involving water, a time when witches were persecuted, bound, and tossed into the largest nearby body of water to see if they would sink or swim.

Kayla Krantz

#44. There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.

Kayla Krantz

#45. I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

Kayla Krantz

#46. Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

Judith Krantz

#47. He really did do something to me, and I was too busy falling for it to realize what it was. Good job on a beautiful web, spider.
Excerpt from Rise Above Twilight

Kayla Krantz

#48. People fail to realize that horror isn't just monsters and death. Sometimes, it's learning to accept the darkness of human nature.

Kayla Krantz

#49. He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.

Kayla Krantz

#50. I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Judith Krantz

#51. When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

Tony Krantz

#52. Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

Steven G. Krantz

#53. It reminded him of the truth - who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.

Kayla Krantz

#54. A tingling in her spine warned her the path that lay ahead was dangerous, but her curiosity placated her, driving her onward against her instincts.

Kayla Krantz

#55. I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

Judith Krantz

#56. Luna was glad Amy wasn't one to pry. She knew that if she wanted to talk about it, she would. More people needed to be like her.

Kayla Krantz

#57. I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.

Tony Krantz

#58. He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.

Kayla Krantz

#59. There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

Kayla Krantz

#60. If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.

Kayla Krantz

#61. The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

Judith Krantz

#62. I don't want to be a kitten anymore. Give me my honorary claws so I can become a lion.

Kayla Krantz

#63. The Talmud says 'When a man faces his Maker, he will have to account for those pleasures of life he failed to experience.' That's one part of the Talmud I know and the one part I agree with entirely.

Judith Krantz

#64. My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

Judith Krantz

#65. One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.

Kayla Krantz

#66. You know, without your cloak of burning rage, you almost look like a girl," he teases with a wink at me.

Kayla Krantz

#67. My mistake was that I didn't kill you.

Kayla Krantz

#68. In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone

Kayla Krantz

#69. GIRLS MAY START OUT SMART BUT NOT ALL GIRLS STAY SO DAMNED SMART..

Judith Krantz