top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Standard
Customized
More
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
Challenge
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."
Quality
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
God
"The more you reason the less you create."
Reason
"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
Intelligence
More
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page