Xiaodan Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write. — Chad Harbach

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet. — Maria Sharapova

Woman should have the choice whether to have an abortion or not, but I like what Bill Clinton said: It ought to be safe and rare. You don't want to offend people with it. You try and do as much as you can to let people be different, but also to try and protect them from things that they think are bad. And it's worth all of us giving a little. — Paul R. Ehrlich

Writing is the hardest physical work there is. — Tom Robbins

Art doesn't bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have! — Brian Aldiss

I don't think women are made only for sex; they can turn men into wolves and make them fight till the death. — M.F. Moonzajer

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window. — John Oates

Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence — Manly P. Hall

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level. — Edmund Phelps