Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Charles de Lint

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

Colleen McCullough

I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

Carine Roitfeld

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

Carine Roitfeld

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Pat Conroy

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Annie Jacobsen

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

Bill Moyers

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

Carol Anshaw

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

Chris Bohjalian

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Christopher Golden

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Dorothea Lange

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Doug Larson

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Denise Mina

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

Deborah Norville

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Evan Davis

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Edward M. Lerner

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

Giles Foden

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Helen Rowland

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

Iris Chang