Ingenta Connect Quotes & Sayings

From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it. — Ben Fountain

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. — Agnes Martin

Together they had painted a rather vivid image in her mind of a man with a bloody sword, guided by a shrivelled lump of ash and ice for a heart, in possession of actual fangs and claws. — Alexandra Bracken

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue. — Edmund Phelps

My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.' — Sebastian Faulks

Don't Obsess Over What People Think — Randy Pausch

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done. — John Mayer

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good. — Hannah Whitall Smith

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on. — Patton Oswalt

I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z. — Estelle