Picador Press Quotes

#1. This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings

Autumn Doughton

#2. I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

#3. I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

Francesca Marciano

#4. The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

George H. W. Bush

#5. I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

Keegan Connor Tracy

#6. fake people notice the most fake things in the most real people

Abby Reynolds

#7. When I'm reaching an audience, I feel it.

Hubert Sumlin

#8. I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.

Jon Lester

#9. Lying is the new truth.

B. Cameron Lee

#10. I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

Walt Disney

#11. each possessed something the other wanted and, in that way, complemented the other.

Patti Smith

#12. The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

Michelle M. Pillow

#13. Life is some kind of a terminal disease, otherwise, why do we have more dead people than alive?

Boris Zubry