Neerings Reviews Quotes & Sayings

And in fact, writing is one of the worst-paid professions in the world: The average book sells fewer than 500 copies The average writer makes less than $10,000 per book advance. The average self-published author makes less $5000 in royalties per year. — Monica Leonelle

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do. — Kris Kristofferson

We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in. — David Filo

Explorers have to be ready to die lost. — Russell Hoban

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. — Laurie Anderson

Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.* I gazed with a kind of wonder. It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path ; and I again went out. * The moon. — Mary Shelley

There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life. — Josephine Tey

What rivets me to history is seeing / acts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens. — Adrienne Rich

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. — Dick Cavett