Fforde Katie Quotes & Sayings

My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read "how to write" books as they may make the process a bit quicker. — Katie Fforde

She tried to sound casual and upbeat but in her heart she felt a sudden bleakness. — Katie Fforde

I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away! — Katie Fforde

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways. — Linda Ronstadt

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. — Tariq Ali

to get in on both sides, and there's space for a — Katie Fforde

Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit. — Brad Pitt

But you're worth crying over. So i've decided you're staying here with me all night - or at least until I've given you twenty-seven orgasms.' Gina found herself a bit breathless. 'Twenty-seven? That's a very specific number.' 'I'm a very specific sort of man. Now each up. — Katie Fforde

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy. — Jennifer Beals

Laura read a lot. She lived alone in a tiny bedsit and her television was so small and snowy she didn"t watch it much. But she read all the time: at bedtime, while she ate, while she cooked, while she dressed and while she brushed her teeth. She would have read in the shower if she could have worked out a method that wouldn"t completely ruin the book. In the same way she could read anywhere, she could read anything, and if it was good, enjoy it. — Katie Fforde

Hey, nice landing!" Addie called, and I turned to see her standing next to her shuttle, grinning.
I laughed and shrugged my shoulders. "They're all still alive!"
"Sort of a low bar you set for yourself, huh?" Beth asked, playfully punching my shoulder as I helped her out of the shuttle. — Amy Tintera

P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the jobs I can't have now. I can also give myself skills I don't have. — Katie Fforde

Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued. — Tig Notaro

But the trouble with falling in love was that it was involuntary, no matter how well you knew it was a bad idea, if it was going to happen, it happened, and you couldn't prevent it, however much you wanted to. — Katie Fforde

She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved. — Katie Fforde

No, I pay the newsagent. And for someone so pernickety about whose business is whose, you're asking a lot of very personal questions. — Katie Fforde

Emily wasn't used to having her knitting skills questioned. But — Katie Fforde

Emily felt churlish for being disappointed. She — Katie Fforde

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats. — Woody Allen

Troubles never come singly. — Mary Louisa Molesworth

Lex, do you think, six weeks without you, I didn't learn my fuckin' lesson?" She blinked. He kept going. "I learned, baby. Lived raw for six fuckin' weeks, wasting my own goddamned life and yours. Downloading on-line divorce papers ... " He shook his head, not going back there. Not fucking there. Doing that shit cost him too much, he couldn't go back there. So he finished, "Fuck yeah, I learned. — Kristen Ashley