I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
Jane Lindskold
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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
BIBLE The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn&...
KENNETH OPPEL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Ran...
M. J. ROSE I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called '...
ADRIAN MCKINTY In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - ...
GAYLE LYNDS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.
RANDY ALCORN When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s...
IAN RANKIN My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w...
KATE THOMPSON My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my fi...
MARTIN AMIS It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on...
M. J. ROSE I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' wa...
DANIEL ALARCON When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I...
RICHARD RUSSO I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
CAITLIN KITTREDGE Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers a...
JEAN HANFF KORELITZ I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a cow...
JEFFREY THOMAS Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years...
WARREN SPECTOR I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family...
MAYA ANGELOU I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every bo...
CHARLAINE HARRIS We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was publish...
JAY MCINERNEY For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, sh...
DARRYL PINCKNEY I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patr...
JOHN MCENROE I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when some...
LAURA HADDOCK I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother'...
BILL PAXTON When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book...
PAT CONROY Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kid...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since...
TESS GERRITSEN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and ...
HUGH GRANT I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A ...
MADISON SMARTT BELL I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged t...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom ...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been ...
A.J. STYLES I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a perio...
KATHERINE KELLY I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've a...
JAMES ARTHUR First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn...
BEN PEEK Since 'School of Rock' opened, for the first time in my career, ever, really, I've had a...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reig...
CAROL GUZY When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapt...
COLLEEN HOOVER I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy ...
PAT OLIPHANT I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that proc...
TANANARIVE DUE Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure w...
ERIC AVERY I had written about a half-dozen short stories, and they started to feel more like part of one novel...
BARBARA GROSH I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
DREW GILPIN FAUST Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ...
JULIA GLASS Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th...
EDMUND WHITE Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only ...
LENNIE JAMES I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ...
KARRINE STEFFANS I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up...
MOLLY IVINS It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career...
CALVIN JOHNSON I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my c...
JEFF KINNEY When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead.
SEAN HAYES I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got ...
SI ROBERTSON I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, ...
LANA DEL REY I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this ...
ALEC BALDWIN When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I c...
D. A. PENNEBAKER I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the...
SETH GREEN When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, ...
AARON PATZER When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half lat...
SIMON MCBURNEY I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always be...
RAY WISE I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me...
IAN MILLAR I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh...
BILLY PORTER Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.
DWYANE WADE When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR. My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' ...
ERIC FLINT The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagul...
CAREY MULLIGAN I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first lan...
ODETTE ANNABLE The first time I heard 'Sharknado,' I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacu...
ANN COULTER I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sen...
PENELOPE CRUZ When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's...
OWEN HART I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of ...
J. A. JANCE My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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JANE JACOBS A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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JANE AUSTEN Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
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JANE AUSTEN What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, ...
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JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
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JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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JANE HARRISON Men are creatures with eight hands.
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JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence.
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JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD