Ludmila Gurchenko Quotes

#1. The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. And what do you leave behind? ... Who do you leave with only memories of you? How many hearts do you break when you risk too much and die too young?

Shannon Delany

#3. I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

Harry Turtledove

#4. He's hit! He's hit!" Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill.

Katie McGarry

#5. Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

Richelle Mead

#6. A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

John Dryden

#7. I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

Ronald Frame

#8. If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

Henry Petroski

#9. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?

Dashiell Hammett

#12. I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

Zubin Mehta