Operative Report Quotes

#1. I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

Emma Donoghue

#2. The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

PLO Lumumba

#3. I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#4. I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

Al Franken

#5. The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.

Lee L Jampolsky

#6. This is Fiction, and the truth is whatever you make it. You can interpret the situation in any way you want, and all of the scenarios could be real
and what's more, depending on how you act now, any one of them could become real.

Jasper Fforde

#7. There can be no god without desire.

David Vann

#8. No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.

Jeannine Atkins

#9. Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.

Nina LaCour

#10. Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

David Richo

#11. For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

Hillary Clinton

#12. I don't really know how to work a camera.

Zoe Sugg

#13. I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot of wonderful writers writing for Y.A. I feel like I'm in the right place.

Rick Riordan