Quotes About Unwin

#1. The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published in Great Britain by the London firm George Allen & Unwin on 29 July 1954; an American edition followed on 21 October of the same year, published

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail.
-Rayner Unwin

Jeff Shanley

#3. That the printer had quietly reset The Fellowship of the Ring, and that copies had been issued without proof having been read by the author, never became known to Tolkien; while his publisher, Rayner Unwin, learned of it only thirty-eight years after the fact.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Turning his back on the village of Unwin, Chiave lumbered into the forest, barely able to walk under the weight of all he carried.

Amanda Orneck

#5. Brendan wasn't sure how he felt about having someone defend his honor. He might look like some fairy tale prince, but he'd never thought of himself as soft or weak, someone that needed rescuing. But then he'd never had mobster bitches from hell on his ass either.

Darien Cox

#6. If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.

Charles Martin

#7. Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Moliere

#8. Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.

Stanley Unwin

#9. Architecture is a subtle and difficult art. It needs dedication and involves pain. Being able 'to architect' is not a capacity that can be developed to sophisticated levels quickly and easily.

Simon Unwin

#10. In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Christo

#11. We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Robert Hughes

#12. One thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

Socrates

#13. Back then I was dropping acid regularly, and I lost all sorts of stuff. Including, for short periods, my mind.

Stephen King

#14. Stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Angelica Banks

#15. As far as I concerned, God loves ever'body so God forgives ever'body so ever'body gonna get to heaven.

Laila Ibrahim

#16. How could I be someone else before giving myself a place in this world.

Paul Travis

#17. Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

Harold Prince

#18. A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

Jeremy Bonderman

#19. Fun isn't what it used to be.

Eric Walters

#20. I only read books thatt I know will like

Vicky Unwin

#21. Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

Stanley Unwin

#22. I only read books I know I will like

Vicky Unwin

#23. If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

Stanley Unwin