I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
Susan Straight
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ARIJIT SINGH I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books...
MATTHEW VAUGHN I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Ran...
M. J. ROSE Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY I have 100 boxes of crayons in one suitcase and over 100 coloring and activity books in another. The...
GINA GUDDAT For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pic...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels....
DAVE PIRNER More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children.
BARBARA WALKER I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' com...
ANDY BIERSACK But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s...
JONATHAN COE Since the Roe v. Wade decision, Planned Parenthood has aborted more than three million innocent Amer...
DAVID BEREIT I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of wh...
SHAWN MENDES She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... S...
CAMERON CROWE You need 100% commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [p...
ZOE SALDANA I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie...
SAM ABELL I've done more with a better plan for jobs here in eight days than this president's done in two and ...
WESLEY CLARK Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of chara...
NANCY KRESS I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than w...
O. R. MELLING Over the past 10 years I have placed in my novels the names of more than two dozen close friends and...
DAN BROWN More than 1,000 adults and countless children visit the show annually. We always joke that a lot of ...
BOB BROWN I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in...
CHERYL BENARD When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live semina...
JACK CANFIELD I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all...
SATYAJIT RAY I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're abso...
SANDRA BROWN My days are filled with you, and for that I am more grateful than you could ever know
KENNEDY VEGA I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth...
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
CHRISTIAN DIOR Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on...
JULIA GLASS I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, ...
CHRIS RIDDELL I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'...
GARTH NIX I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte...
JASPER FFORDE I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I...
BRUCE STERLING I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ...
NATALIE BABBITT Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT Today we're having a celebration for more than a 100 customers who have been with the bank for 50 ye...
CEO DENNIS UPCHURCH The countless heroes that sacrifice for volunteering have shown our children a great nation.
BOB HARRIS I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some r...
JONATHAN DEE Create an inspirational environment for yourself filled with uplifting books, movies, quotes, and mu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.
DEBBIE VIGUIé I have heard these names more than 100 times.
ZHANG DANUO I certainly love writing books. I've always written short stories and novels, because in prose, you ...
MARIA HEADLEY During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
CHRISTIAN DIOR I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither h...
DANIEL HANDLER In South Africa and in countless other countries, we have been working for more than a decade to ens...
ZACKIE ACHMAT Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
CAPRICE BOURRET My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger a...
NANCY GARDEN We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective...
LARRY HALE Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear,...
ELLEN DATLOW Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history
CHAMFORT I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit...
CANDACE BUSHNELL She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another colleg...
R. ALBERT MOHLER JR. If the two licenses have differing terms, there may be a conflict between the two when you try to mo...
BRIAN FERGUSON It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many sto...
ANNIE DILLARD I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do beli...
ELIF SAFAK I did not have a sober, straight, legal day from 1974 to 1994. Not one.
DOUG FERRARI I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either re...
RICHARD K. MORGAN [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels...
PAUL AUSTER This emergency scene could have been much worse and a lot more tragic, just due to the fact that if ...
BOB SIMPSON Books speak more to a female audience than does his music so these novels give him an opportunity to...
KATHLEEN SCHMIDT The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two...
TAYLOR JENKINS REID I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
ELEANOR CATTON Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
DEBORAH DAY I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat...
DANIEL HANDLER I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
APRIL WINCHELL LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG...
SARAVAN MAHESWER I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My ...
ARIEL WINTER My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in ...
ALEK WEK I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ...
BRUCE COVILLE A house filled with books is source of knowledge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We've had two good days. Now we'll come back with pads on Thursday and keep it going.
HOUSTON NUTT It's women writing about all kinds of things. They write their memoirs and life stories; some women ...
KATHY WADE This is an extreme legal theory, and our courts should not be filled with nonsense like this.
DEREK GAUBATZ Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to...
NAOMI WOLF There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic boo...
JOHN RIDLEY Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO In addition to the 100 books, they also donated a pack of books to every one of the [25] children in...
MARY BUCKLEY Ross was far advanced beyond what you get with most lawyers with two years of experience. He's a har...
DAVE HUNNICUTT Would you want you as an example for the children of the world?
PETER STROPLE I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
TAYLOR CALDWELL I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea...
AL ROKER Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have be...
ROALD DAHL I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I have compassion for Susan and I have to come from a caring place when I hear that.
DANIEL HOROWITZ I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing ...
CHARBEL TADROS Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as seriou...
SIRI HUSTVEDT I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement ...
TAYLOR JENKINS REID I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in t...
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[Speech upon being awa...
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SUSAN WOJCICKI These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...
SUSAN COLLINS There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s...
SUSAN SONTAG Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo...
SUSAN ISAACS Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern...
SUSAN ERTZ For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ...
SUSAN SONTAG By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living ...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades a...
SUSAN CHOI Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and la...
SUSAN ORLEAN When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis...
SUSAN DECKER My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happ...
SUSAN HAMPSHIRE If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree...
SUSAN GEORGE The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m...
SUSAN SONTAG When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
SUSAN SARANDON In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ...
SUSAN WIGGS To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ...
SUSAN CHOI It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra...
SUSAN STRASBERG My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best:...
SUSAN ESTRICH I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a th...
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