Ornella Muti Quotes
In the hospital, I read a book about American Indians and saw in it the name of Nike. It was written incorrectly, as I later learned. But I called my daughter Nike.
Ornella Muti
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
J. Michael Straczynski
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
J. B. Smoove
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins
Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
Kat Dennings
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
Gabrielle Zevin
I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
Ophelia Lovibond
Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
Dan Hawkins
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
Patricia Cornwell
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
Samuel Johnson
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
V. S. Naipaul
Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
P. G. Wodehouse
As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
Janet Evanovich
There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.
Peter Carey
When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.
Joanne Liu
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
Lisa Scottoline
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
Jamaica Kincaid
