Quotes About Shout Outs

#1. I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.

George Pelecanos

#2. I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.

Robert Wilson

#3. All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

Joshua Cohen

#4. He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem "spoke to him" it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.

Claire Messud

#5. From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.

Arthur Koestler

#6. The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

Jennifer Niven

#7. I love zoo sanctuaries.

Nancy Travis

#8. Lizzing is a combination of laughing and whizzing.

LIZ

#9. I am the false character that follows the name around.

Don DeLillo

#10. Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

John Mott

#11. Our past might have been rocky, but I think our future's inevitable.

Lynetta Halat

#12. Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Annalee Newitz

#13. Bad leather, Viking gods should be naked.

Amy Sumida

#14. Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad ...

Gregory Maguire

#15. What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

Herman Melville

#16. So she began her death vigil.

Sarah J. Maas