R.K. King Quotes

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game.

The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!

I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

My God...it can think.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.

I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.