Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About d

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Always Awards Battle Between
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Drink Genuinely Happy He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Am Does Flaws Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

About Maybe Started Writing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Avoid Catholic Chemistry Forbidden
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Also Better Cabbage Idealist
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Began Comedy Did Feel
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Because Book Create Different
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Fairly Book Undisciplined Writer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Common Hate Hates Likes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Age Brings Distrust Doctrine
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
  Favorite Make wallpaper
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Further Here Human Human Knowledge
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
Better Much Rock Roll
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Institution Live Marriage Want
  Favorite Make wallpaper

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Amendment Amendment Rights Book Comic
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Cause Determined Few Leaders
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Always Before Brighter Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief Defined Faith Illogical
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

Love People Engaged Society
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being Between Bored Daydreaming
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Also Democracy Form Worship
  Favorite Make wallpaper
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Belief Collective Democracy Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Bonus Chemical Dogs Eat
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Cigarette Never Nine Smoked
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Answer Clear Complex Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Area Children Drop Go
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Grow Grows Hard Heart
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Capable Individuals Made Original
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas

Helplessness Prayer Calls Heart
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Chief Fact Lies Lives
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Always Been Children Clothes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Been Chest Ever Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Baptism Best Better Campaign
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nikola-tesla-quotes

Virtue Failings Inseparables Force
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Articles By The Time Candidates Day
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Any Best Honestly Matter
  Favorite Make wallpaper