Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Self

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Alaina Huffman

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Al Sharpton

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Akhil Sharma

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

Chris Carter

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Abani

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Abraham Lincoln

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.

William Shakespeare

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

Charlie Munger

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

James Baker

The only reason why I negotiated with these guys was simply because they didn't try to avoid the issue, they got hold of us right way, ... They clearly didn't understand when they went out of bounds the risk that was involved to other people. I think in looking backward, they understand they put other people at risk with their behavior and this was a way to settle this thing.

Chuck Mulloy

We believe that our proxy is completely within the bounds of the law, and we believe that he is mistaken in his case. It will be vigorously defended.

William Shakespeare

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

Eliot Spitzer

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

Wendy Kopp

Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.