Lescroart Quotes

#1. I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

John Lescroart

#2. When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

Caitlin Moran

#3. Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.

John Lescroart

#4. There is no destiny awaiting us except what we create through our own actions.

Marty Rubin

#5. One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

John Lescroart

#6. Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

Pete Rose

#7. I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

John Lescroart

#8. You ever think that life is something that happens and that you're not ever completely prepared for?

John Lescroart

#9. manslaughter, not murder.

John Lescroart

#10. The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

John Lescroart

#11. There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

Garry Wills

#12. In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

John Lescroart

#13. Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.

Frans De Waal

#14. Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

Matthew Arnold

#15. He had tried to smile, but it was broken.

Kim Harrison

#16. We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

Sheryl Sandberg