Book Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

— Jeff Tweedy

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are…

— Peter Capaldi

That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone…

— Robert A. M. Stern

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

— Alexander Chase

There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so.…

— Katie Price

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives,…

— Fred Saberhagen

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to…

— Philip Pullman

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

— Nikki Reed

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of…

— George Bernard Shaw

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

— Rachel Cohn

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be…

— Kazuo Ishiguro