John Lescroart Quotes
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
Quotes to Explore
-
If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
-
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
-
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
-
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
-
A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
-
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
-
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
-
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
-
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-
I don't let anything kill my spirit.
-
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
-
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
-
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
-
Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
-
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
-
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
-
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
-
I love tennis, love it!
-
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
