Kroft Quotes & Sayings

Literary Irony: A novelist of the paranormal using a ghostwriter. — Michael Kroft

Dwight would later learn that being Lyon's friend would cost him opportunities to make more of them, but he was content with that. He had learned the school year before that having a close friend was like having fifty not so close ones. ** — Michael Kroft

A jerk, a creep or an asshole in a wheelchair, is still a jerk, a creep or an Asshole. — Michael Kroft

I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books — Michael Kroft

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Just because you're aware that you're a nincompoop, doesn't make you any less of one. — Michael Kroft

Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble. — Steve Kroft

To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end. — Michael Kroft

A jerk stuck in a wheelchair, is still a jerk. — Michael Kroft

You know what a mistake is, right?"
"Like when Mommy yells at me and then says she is sorry later. — Keira Kroft

Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one. — Michael Kroft

Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough. — Steve Kroft

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs. — Steve Kroft

You said a formal dinner was where we dress up!" explained the little boy behind the monkey mask. — Michael Kroft

At middle age, I decide to give up on my dream of being an astronaut and follow my second, to be a writer. Also, I heard there was no smoking in the space station. — Michael Kroft

Dear, she's not tolerant at all of our being Jewish," said Mrs. Rosen. "She has no problem with it that requires any. — Michael Kroft

I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper. — Steve Kroft

I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies. — Steve Kroft

My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course. — Steve Kroft

Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington. — Steve Kroft

We do tend to overreact when we feel threatened. Men, I mean. — Keira Kroft

I think finding that happy medium is pretty much impossible. I have never seen or heard of a cheerful ghost talker. — Michael Kroft

Since writing, I've learnt to truly appreciate COLD coffee. If the second or third sip is cold, I lost track of time and was in my groove. — Michael Kroft

Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95. — Steve Kroft

The only big drawback to writing is its negative impact on reading. — Michael Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then. — Steve Kroft

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist. — Michael Kroft

If a novel doesn't have well-developed three-dimensional principal characters, wouldn't it be a graphic novel without the graphics? — Michael Kroft

I don't so much believe in Political correctness as I do in Public Correctness. People tend speak quite "different" in the secure comfort of their home. — Michael Kroft

If I was to write a novel about the paranormal, I think I would want to use a ghostwriter for greater impact. — Michael Kroft

I know that now probably isn't the time. But I have been here for the worse, and I want to be here for the rest. — Keira Kroft