My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
Babs: Greg, honey, is it supposed to be this soft?
Bluto: They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!
Pinto: [First Lines] Take off that beenie.
[last lines] John 'Bluto' Blutarsky: No Prisoners!
Angels do not enter a house where there is a dog.
I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.
HOPE is House Of Positive Energy
Women with clean houses do not have finished books.
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they pay for it.
Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!
As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction no...
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have ha...
Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.
To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
Waiting for a book to be published is like having a baby. It would be nine months before we heard the patter of tiny pages trotting through the letter box, and the bookcase shuffled it's shelves in boredom and I was a martyr to morning sickness.
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.
