Quote authors in 1974

Authors of 1974

Born or Deceased in 1974

Dizzy Dean

Dizzy Dean

Tribute :17 July 1974

Nick Ferguson

Nick Ferguson

Born :27 November 1974

Derek Fisher

Derek Fisher

Born :9 August 1974

Maurice Greene

Maurice Greene

Born :23 July 1974

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

Born :26 June 1974

Frederick Kelly

Frederick Kelly

Tribute :7 May 1974

Billy Koch

Billy Koch

Born :14 December 1974

Bernard Lagat

Bernard Lagat

Born :12 December 1974

Leonard Little

Leonard Little

Born :19 October 1974

Melanie Roach

Melanie Roach

Born :15 December 1974

Ally Carter

Ally Carter

Born :1 January 1974

Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris

Born : 1974

Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor

Born :8 April 1974

Andry Rajoelina

Andry Rajoelina

Born :30 May 1974

Quotes of 1974

Quotes taken from the authors in 1974

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.

You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

I played Baby New Year. When everybody started hollering and throwing confetti, I thought it was for me.

Frederick Kelly

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.