Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Don DeLillo

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

Don DeLillo

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

Jan McDonald

Our problem is that we really need to take responsibility for the different things we need to do. We only have until May, so what we're trying to do is organize ourselves.

Viviana Diaz

Pinochet is not as sick as they say. And it has been proved (Friday) with the kind of reception they organized for him.

Thomas Donnelly

I think this is a very well organized effort, a very cooperative effort, ... You don't see that in a lot of these projects.

John Marshall

Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and we go.

Jim Greer

If it's not organized in any respect, you're just going to get in the way.

Al Gore

If you are going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first

Alphonsus Ezeoke

He never administered any medication. He never did. He never organized anything. There is no truth to any allegation. It will come out that all of these things are fabricated.

Michael Leunig

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Robert Myers

Many people want to restrict your access. They are well organized and very vocal.

Donald Trump

If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.

Cyndi Lauper

There have been great things that happened to me.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Aidan Quinn

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

Grenville Kleiser

If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Jerry Greenfield

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

Marianne Williamson

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

Norman Vincent Peale

Expect great things, and great things will come.

James L. Brooks

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.