Lists Quotes - Page 3

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

God pity the poor novelist.

I’'d love to see Sting come back. The guys that had the potential to make any money and draw any money, they came. The ones that made it, made it, and the ones that didn’'t, didn’'t. The list of those who made it, there’s lots… the list of those who didn'’t make it are longer then the ones who did.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

I have trashed the to-do list. To help my brain...

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much less rule the world.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.