Yanovitch Testimony Quotes

#1. To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Pyper

#2. So what happened?" Mom asks; there's a tone of resignation, the sound of a parent who has tried really hard for a long time and realizes that the end of the tunnel doesn't have a light so much as a black hole.

Mindy McGinnis

#3. Sometimes i only sleep to wake up

Saahil Prem

#4. His scream was more of a roar, pouring out of him in a great torrent. Screaming for his loss, venting his pain.

Phillip W. Simpson

#5. Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

Wesley Clark

#6. When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.

Chen Guangbiao

#7. Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Carl Sandburg

#9. I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Sidney Poitier

#10. In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Bill Cosby

#11. Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo