Miss Moneypenny Sayings

#1. Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical.

Ian Fleming

#2. Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

Sherwood Smith

#3. This is what I'm talking about. I don't know if we can call a truce. All we know how to do is argue."
"You say that like it's a bad thing."
"Isn't it?"
"Jessica," he whispered, "arguing with you is one of my favourite things to do.

Penny Reid

#4. I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Hortense Calisher

#5. It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

John Kapelos

#6. There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Frank Zappa