Quotes About Author

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

I'm used to being crazy and "rock-n-rolly", which is a little different than this world. For me, it was a chance to stretch a little bit.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven, The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior given.

Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.