Elbooks Quotes & Sayings

What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at. — FKA Twigs

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth. — Michael Ashcroft

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?' — Joy Covey

When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt. — Mindy McGinnis

He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you. — Rainbow Rowell

One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do. — Jonathan Galassi

The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.' — Adam Ross

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here. — Alan Shepard

Shadow felt like a pea being flicked between three cups, or a card being shuffled through a deck. — Neil Gaiman

You will find God in the church of your choice. — Bob Dylan

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you — David Ogilvy