Francois Cevert Quotes & Sayings

My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers. — Stephen King

It was easier to pretend at night. Some men lived their entire lives that way, preferring the curtains of darkness to the open windows of daylight, because they let them see the world all in shadow. It — Robert Jordan

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything. — Julian Fellowes

want you to promise to claim your children - all your demigod children - by the time they turn thirteen. They won't be left out in the world on their own at the mercy of monsters. I want them claimed and brought to camp so they can be trained right, and survive. — Rick Riordan

He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support. — Trudi Canavan

Freedom is the process of allowing myself to acknowledge the nature of my soul and to embrace my humanity. It is when I acknowledge how much power I have to create, shape, and change my life. — Cynthia Belmer

Those who play for applause ... Tha t's all they get. — Wynton Marsalis

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls ... They seem to us to be very simple ... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days ... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait ... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch. — Isak Dinesen

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. — Nicola Sturgeon

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole