Firstnovel Quotes & Sayings

I'm a maniacal perfectionist. — Martha Stewart

I will move on. I will smile and laugh and dance. I will run, not from my past, but toward my future. Towards ... me. — Alysha Speer

It always starts out that way," Kanin said, and his voice was distant, as if remembering. "Noble intentions, honor among new vampires. Vows to not harm humans, to take only what is needed, to not hunt them like sheep through the night. — Julie Kagawa

22 A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. — Anonymous

Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention. — Chuck Close

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. — Wynton Marsalis

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers. — Susan Orlean

Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams. — Christopher Golden

The same system that once gave us subprime mortgage collateralized debt obligations no investor could possibly truly understand now gave us stock market trades that occurred at fractions of a penny at unsafe speeds using order types that no investor could possibly truly understand. — Michael Lewis

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie. — Kami Garcia

I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me. — Jan Hellriegel

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration. — Natalia Kills

The Ploughmen is as good a book as I've read in years. Kim Zupan's language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy's, and like Cormac's, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I'm also reminded of James Lee Burke's sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous ... nothing short of brilliant ... a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next. — Rick DeMarinis

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger — Douglas Coupland

A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend. — Mr. Krabs