Maggie Shayne Quotes

#1. It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

Maggie Shayne

#2. The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

Mark Mobius

#3. To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?

Maggie Shayne

#4. Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Maggie Shayne

#5. A typical male who would find a way to blame his lust on the object of it.

Maggie Shayne

#6. Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

Maya Banks

#7. The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules - but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Aleister Crowley

#8. I've been within an inch of my life.

Gary Lutz

#9. When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit.

Anurag Shourie

#10. I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

Sylvia Plath

#11. Bless her head-patting heart

Kiersten White

#12. As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight.

Nenia Campbell

#13. I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Maggie Shayne

#14. < ... > I've
never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

Maggie Shayne

#15. The Soul's knowledge, which pertains only to you - should be acted upon today and put to good use.

Eleesha

#16. Especially since I don't want that vinyl stuff outside. 'Oh,' he says, 'that vinyl siding makes a warm house, never has to be painted, you can buy it on time.' I said I wouldn't have it on my coffin." She

Annie Proulx

#17. Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what a rare find she is! Finally, a book for us all to adore! Thank you Karen Fox for creating the most lovable hero romance has seen in a long, long time!

Maggie Shayne

#18. False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

Kyle Cease

#19. Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She
shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

Maggie Shayne

#20. Show me success without ego!

Ivana Trump

#21. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

Maya Angelou

#22. The ghost of a roar of laughter came out to them, and was drowned at once in the wind.

Virginia Woolf