Favorite Quotes


Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writters.

They wish they had a book in print. 

---James Mitchner


"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

 -- Stephen King


A newspaper report is a snapshot

A magazine article is a portrait

A book is a photo album

---Jana Bommersbach


 On historical fiction--

History is the skeleton

Fiction is the breath

---Jana Bommersbach



"Television a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
--
Ernie Kovacs


"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
 --
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
--
Thomas H. Huxley


"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
--
Walter Bagehot


"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
--
George Eliot


"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."

 -- Mark Twain


"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
--
Voltaire


"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
--
Franklin P. Adams


"Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop."
--
Ralph Novak