Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.
I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.
Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.
And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well
The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.
The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.
Of all the pairs the Throne endorsed None rose to burn as bright As Lucifer, the Morning Star, And Lucinda, his Evening Light
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.
But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
I don't necessarily see my not wearing makeup as a social comment or that it's because I work in a female-dominated industry.
The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.
Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a genre of women.
Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.
Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.
Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.
Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.
We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.
The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.
The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.
for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.
We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.