
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it. —
Charles Stross

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story. —
Mitch Albom

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup. —
Joan Greenwood

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music. —
George H. W. Bush

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it. —
Emile Chartier

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . —
Albert Pike

Seek the strongest color effect possible ... the content is of no importance. —
Henri Matisse

A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be ... —
Janette Oke

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hold on to your vision and make it your reality. —
Wayne Dyer

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time. —
Andrew Wyeth

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. —
Hector Hugh Munro