Ellman Quotes & Sayings

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it. — Carla H. Krueger

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me. — Larry McMurtry

One man's fight is another man's freedom. — Carla H. Krueger

So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a
word, and each word is a sound in my head, and each time I write another
word, I hear the sound of my own voice, even though my lips are silent. — Paul Auster

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism"). — Philip Kitcher

Where's your dog?' I ask quickly. 'Dawn said you had a dog. Let's take the dog out.'
'There ain't no dog,' replies Janis. — Carla H. Krueger

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy. — Giada De Laurentiis

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — Thomas Huxley

With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion ... — Bill Milkowski

He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future. — Dana Spiotta

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade. — Paul Oakenfold

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart. — Carla H. Krueger

I lived through this, I needed to find a new fuckin' job. Janitor. Used car salesman. Guinea pig trainer. — Jessica Gadziala

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of. — Gever Tulley

As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry. — Julia Quinn

Both she and Umfraville might be said to represent forms of revolt, and nothing dates people more than the standards from which they have chosen to react. — Anthony Powell

You aren't going to die for me," I said fiercely, shaking him a little, using up half a container of magic to heal everything in him faster.
His smile was red. "Don't worry so, darling. I'm far too pretty to die. — Anne Zoelle

Sean Evans was officially pissed off. Serves you right, furball. — Ilona Andrews