Rivais Web Quotes

#1. You're a wizard Harry." Hagrid
"I'm a what? I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter [1]

J.K. Rowling

#2. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain. I figured it was time to act. I considered a small press through RADAR, my literary non-profit.

Michelle Tea

#3. Sleep deprivation can lead to insanity, and insanity can lead to buying sweatshirts at Abercrombie

Casey Rand

#4. The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

John Redwood

#5. Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more.

Charles Dickens

#6. People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

Jason O'Mara

#7. Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. Get up, you useless lump, get up!

J.K. Rowling

#9. Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.

Joe Williams

#10. Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.

Mark Akenside

#11. Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

John Owen

#12. Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up! the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.

Harry Turtledove

#13. Redford had read somewhere that cats brought their owners dead birds, rodents, and their own toys because they were trying to teach the stupid humans how to hunt, like they did with their own kittens. From the amount of toys Knievel had brought to him, the cat thought he was absolutely useless.

Robin Saxon