Akademiets Quotes & Sayings

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders. — Bruce Coville

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards. — Jennifer Capriati

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. — Lafcadio Hearn

I like to say good dialogue is a million times easier to memorize than bad dialogue - difficult good dialogue, even if it's difficult. Aaron Sorkin dialogue is easier to memorize, even though it's wildly complicated. — Jesse Bradford

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us ... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish. — David Mitchell

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat. — Kingsley Amis

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth. — Evan Esar

Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
This is right. — Veronica Roth