Richard Curtis Quotes

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!