Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him. Gabrielle Zevin
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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Stephen King
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
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Flannery OConnor
Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read...
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Donald Miller
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
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P.g. Wodehouse
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the...
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Ernest Hemingway
More Quotes By Gabrielle Zevin
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties...
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.
