European Novelists Quotes & Sayings

But all those weeks with Nate, however fake they might have been, did do one thing for me. Whether the rest of world saw me that way, I knew now that I was strong, and I was beautiful, just the way I was. And girls like me needed gorgeous clothes too. — Alessandra Thomas

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. — Larry Elder

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets. — Bill Budge

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists. — Tariq Ali

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true. — Elbert Hubbard

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard. — Margaret Millar

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. — Richard Flanagan

It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out "tree hunting." That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word "trespassing. — Jenny Han

Go back to the Dalai Lama. He says, I think technology has really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. — Amy Poehler

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days. — Sarah Silverman

One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself. — Michael Masser

Hold fast to youth and beauty. — Elizabeth Arden

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers. — Michael Morpurgo

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. — Adrian Mitchell

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn. — Jim Trelease