It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
Kelli O'Hara
Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip t... CARL HIAASEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Just do it. Now. M. YEATS I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire... ROBERT W. SERVICE My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definit... CHELSEA HANDLER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Candid, compelling and above all accessible, Fighting For Freedom In America,makes a notable memoir ... REVIEWED BY BOOK VIRAL SPOTLIGHT Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapt... CAITLIN DOUGHTY When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN 'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudino... DAVID GARROW The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is c... CHRIS BOHJALIAN I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f... STEVE FORBERT He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished w... NICHOLAS SPARKS Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing. ANDREW ROSENTHAL Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says th... MICHAEL KORYTA I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about you... TAYLOR JENKINS REID you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humb... MAX FRISCH For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. Th... ALEXANDRA FULLER Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules u... DANIEL HANNAN If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference. TREY SMITH This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. PETER BENCHLEY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things pe... CAROLE GEITHNER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13. JOHNNY DEPP I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr... STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ... JULIA GLASS It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape ... THOMAS PERRY The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the ... ANNIE DILLARD A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. ISABEL ALLENDE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hope... HARRY SEIDLER If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ... HERMANN HESSE Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman.... MARINA ABRAMOVIC If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glori... RUSSELL BAKER That remains an open question. Some people might argue that it cannibalizes new book sales. Some arg... JEFF ABRAHAM Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the fu... BEN FELDMAN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that y... STEPHEN COONTS I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is ... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it... ROBERT GOTTLIEB There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeli... GARTH BROOKS I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. ADAM LEVINE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know. DEBASISH MRIDHA Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such... TINA BROWN The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by ... WILLIAM SHATNER Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. CARLY FIORINA I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been... PETER EISENMAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA For every dark night I pray for a brighter day. Regrettably, life sometimes has the darkest of days ... ROBBY SILK On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p... MARY SCHMICH When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action pie... MAHERSHALA ALI
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Today day everyone is in a simulation,staying in their own lane never getting out of formation. NICK OHARA Let your light shine or stay confined, find your dream or follow behind in line. NICK OHARA Rather than smoke up the weed, I'll do a good deed, I have it written in my creed, and past on my dr... NICK OHARA Where ever you plan to go, then move, what ever you you plan to do, get it done. Never stand still, ... NICK OHARA Pride can ruin a person by not only what material wealth he has, but can also ruin what he has to of... NICK OHARA The greatest test in life is not only enduring the hardship, but maintaining the character once they... NICK OHARA I'm going to look for knowledge, without this one greatness of perfection, the being of evolution it... NICK OHARA As long as you live, love, for as long as you have health travel, and while you still living learn. NICK OHARA I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcis... 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