Whyiwrite Authors Quotes

#1. I stayed sober for this?

George R R Martin

#2. To be ready does not mean it will be easy. It doesn't mean it will be smooth. It means that even when it's difficult, you have what it takes to survive.

Emma Raveling

#3. I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

Alan Furst

#4. My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

Peter Norvig

#6. History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

Chris Squire

#8. You stole my heart before I could give it to you.

Luke Taylor

#9. He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Philip K. Dick

#10. On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

Al McGuire

#11. and was now bending over the golden effigy of a bat, perhaps Zotz, the Underworld god.

Deborah Jackson

#12. Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#13. A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.

Natsuki Takaya

#14. I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

Judd Nelson