Shari Rose Sheppard Quotes

#1. I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

J.G. Ballard

#2. Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

Daniel Okrent

#3. So you planned this? The whole time we were together, you were scheming some way to screw up royally so I'd leave you alone?"
"No, Luce," he said, grabbing my hand back. "So I'd leave you alone.

Nicole Williams

#4. A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

Alice Walker

#5. British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Christopher Isherwood

#6. All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

Louis Zamperini

#7. They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo.

Suzanne Stroh