Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

John Searles

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

John Searles

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Joseph Sobran

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

James Wolcott

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Jann Wenner

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Jennifer Weiner

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Daniel Alarcon

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

Dean Cavanagh

Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.

Dean Cavanagh

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Dean Cavanagh

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Dean Cavanagh

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

Dean Cavanagh

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it.

Dean Cavanagh

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Diane Mott Davidson