Pinfold House Quotes & Sayings

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) — Jack McClelland

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy'
I call them 'disease of the week' movies. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child - but what child isn't? — Gregory Maguire

Dedicated to anyone who is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be. Don't worry, friends, the universe has a plan for you; you just need to listen to what it's trying to tell you and you'll eventually end up exactly where you were always meant to be. — Jay Crownover

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. — Will Rogers

How, he wondered, did humanity ever get along without duct tape? — Scott Hawkins

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it. — John Flanagan

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. — Gunter Brus

I had been working at home at the time and was looking to find a studio space somewhere outside of my apartment. I thought that might be good for me in terms of having a little bit more discipline with my work habits. — Ralph Reese

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy. — Philip Massinger

But family was family, full stop. — Kit Rocha

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day. — Swami Vivekananda

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course. — Salman Rushdie