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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."
"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."
"Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine."
"Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative."
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
"I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it."
"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
"I don't like the American media - particularly Fox."
"Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week."
"A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that."
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."
"I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea."
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
"Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people."
"My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent."
"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
"You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios."
"Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser, of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse."
"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
"We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest."
"The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together."
"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
"We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games."
"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves."
"It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye."
"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
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