Quotes About Address Books

#1. The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

Michael Gerson

#2. When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

Kiran Desai

#3. I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

Henry Rollins

#4. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#5. Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

James Howe

#6. or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 POCKET and colophon are registered

M.C. King

#7. I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

Viggo Mortensen

#8. My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

Duane Michals

#10. In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary
from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.

Don DeLillo

#11. That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

Milan Kundera

#12. You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

Walter Kirn

#14. You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

Gregory Peck