Marissa Moss Quotes

#1. New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.

Marissa Moss

#2. It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

Marissa Moss

#3. If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

George Clooney

#4. Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

Marissa Moss

#5. When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?

Bill Gates

#6. My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

Marissa Moss

#7. You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

Marissa Moss

#8. I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

Marissa Moss

#9. Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance.

Marissa Moss

#10. Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Marissa Moss

#11. A laugh reverberated through his chest, into her, and before she was ready Wolf settled her feet onto a patch of squishy moss. She scrambled out of his hold, caught her balance, then punched him squarely in the arm. "Never do that again.

Marissa Meyer

#12. History is exciting because it's true.

Marissa Moss

#13. What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.

Larry The Cable Guy

#14. This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn't be more timely and important.

David McCullough

#15. Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

Marissa Moss

#16. When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Marissa Moss

#17. I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

Dick Cheney

#18. Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Solomon Ortiz

#19. With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

Marissa Moss

#20. It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

Parmenides

#21. No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

#22. Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

Sri Aurobindo

#23. Every kid has a story to tell!

Marissa Moss

#24. The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.

Adam Michnik

#25. Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

Marissa Moss

#26. Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

Marissa Moss

#27. I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

Marissa Moss

#28. Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

Marissa Moss