Quotes About Ballantine

#1. I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt.

Umberto Eco

#2. Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#3. All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

Poe Ballantine

#4. I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

Poe Ballantine

#5. The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

Richard Ballantine

#6. 'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

Poe Ballantine

#7. Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

Richard Ballantine

#8. Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.

Carl Ballantine

#9. Namir snorted. "What is it with you people and Vader?" he asked. "It can't be the helmet that scares people. Stormtroopers have helmets.

Ballantine Books

#10. I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

Poe Ballantine

#11. Nay, you attract mayhem, chaos, and anarchy wherever your delicate feet tread. Around you there is no such thing as a coincidence."
"Why do you think it is always me, Director?" Eliza protested. "It could be Books. My father always told me to beware the quiet ones!

Philippa Ballantine

#12. Chaotic Of Echoes The Lands Darkest Hours Of Lions
Architect the Garlots of War The Precognitions

Philippa Ballantine

#13. Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'

Poe Ballantine

#14. I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

Poe Ballantine

#15. Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

Poe Ballantine

#16. Be that as it may, we were
and no doubt, still are
held under scrutiny, with that whole Phoenix Society brouhaha. It is imperative we remain on our best behaviour, a feat that you did not exactly manage effortlessly with your shenanigans in Edinburgh.

Philippa Ballantine

#17. I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

Poe Ballantine

#18. A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Poe Ballantine

#19. I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.

Poe Ballantine

#20. I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.

Philippa Ballantine

#21. Right then," Campbell began, his tone so civil it was offensive. "May I have your name for the record, Miss ... ?"
"Eliza Braun," Eliza sneered. "Here, I'll spell it for you
B-U-G-G-E-R-O-F-F.

Tee Morris

#22. Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

Poe Ballantine

#23. Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

Poe Ballantine

#24. I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Poe Ballantine

#25. Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them.

Philippa Ballantine

#26. The mention of money did intrigue him, since he did prefer wine, women, and song to beer, whores, and accordion music.

Pip Ballantine

#27. I always think better when I am being shot at.

Philippa Ballantine

#28. If I am dead, well, then there's somethin' 'bout you, Eleanor, that's makin' me feel like I'm still alive.

Tabitha Freeman

#29. There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

Poe Ballantine

#30. One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.

Poe Ballantine

#31. In lang, lang days o' simmer,
When the clear and cloudless sky
Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
To Nature parched and dry,
The genial night, wi' balmy breath,
Gars verdue, spring anew,
An' ilka blade o' grass
Keps its ain drap o' dew.

James Ballantine

#32. Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Poe Ballantine

#33. Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

Poe Ballantine