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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!
Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?
"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.
Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.
This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.
A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.
I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?
I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.
I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.
I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.