Spradlin Auction Quotes

#1. Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

#2. I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Elmore Leonard

#3. Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

Eric Frank Russell

#4. He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

Janet Mock

#5. Mr. Denham cursed himself very sharply for having exchanged the freedom of the street for this sophisticated drawing-room,

Virginia Woolf

#6. He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.

Steve Corbett

#8. Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.

Tom Barrett

#10. My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

Thomas Ruff

#11. Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury ...

Carol Anshaw