Famous quotes by Famous people

” Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. “

” I always tell my students, ‘If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can’t possibly live long enough to write all the novels you’ll encounter. “

” One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: ‘You put bad words in your books, don’t you?’ No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: ‘Well, you’ll never find her books in the Christian bookstore. “

” I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word ‘placenta.’ I wanted to say: ‘Now tell me again how you got here?’ Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork. “

” By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives – you can’t say, think, or do this or that. “

” You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there’s a real entry into the story – that some quality speaks to the individual. “