Naipaul Author Quotes

#1. If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell.

James Purdy

#2. I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

Lee Iacocca

#3. We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

Molly Friedenfeld

#4. He was a silent type, very nervy of people: shy, introverted, nobody would believe he could scream so loud ... well he did drink a bottle of bleach!

Stephen Richards

#5. Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.

Ben Bernanke

#6. Every river they came to was bridge-less, as if its name had been erased, as if the sky were starless, homes doorless.

Michael Ondaatje

#7. I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

Marc Beland

#8. She reached up and kissed him on the lips. It was a small kiss. It lasted only two or three seconds, just long enough for him to taste the future.

Francisco X Stork

#9. Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

Alan Shepard

#10. Stale water is a poor drink,' said Annlaw. 'Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Lloyd Alexander

#11. The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.

Elizabeth Taylor

#12. I let go of all that does not serve me with gentleness and ease.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#13. Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Piers Paul Read

#14. She felt ... new, just-made. She felt as if everything she had ever done out of weakness or fear had been undone, and all of her past washed clean.

Emma Bull

#15. I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

Cathleen Schine