Writer Quotes

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.