Harriet Schultz > Harriet's Quotes

“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“The hardest thing about writing is writing.”
― Nora Ephron

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

“As a longtime journalist, this quote from the delicious Nora Ephron made me smile in recognition of its truth:

"Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at the orgy...everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes.”
― Nora Ephron

“There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.”
― Carole Radziwill, The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman