William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
