Crosswords Quotes - Page 3

• I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

  Nelson DeMille

  Guy, Definitions, Ran

  Nelson DeMille (2008). “Wild Fire: Number 4 in series”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Fate, Winning, Awards

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• Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

  Samantha Bond

  Three, Paper, Sometimes

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• It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

  Paul Muldoon

  Book, Writing, Trying

  "Paul Muldoon: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 26, 2003.

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• Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

  Betty Smith

  Book, People, Puzzles

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• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  Ian Anderson

  Fire, Brain, Littles

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