Quotes by American Authors - Page 2205

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier. And that doesn't seem fair. I mean, I've been doing it so surely I should be getting better at it, at least a little bit blasé... And it seems to be working absolutely the opposite. This book [Big Brother] I had no confidence in the entirety of its composition, and I only decided I liked it when I finished the very final draft. This means I'm in a state of semi-misery for a long time. And I can't blithely seem either that's some little game I'm playing with myself because, you know, you can easily come along and you don't like what's you're writing for good reason. Right? So, yeah, it's very anxious making, I don't think it's so much the becoming a little more successful, I think it's becoming slightly more aware of how much has already been written, and just becoming less self-impressed as the years go by. More impressed with some people who are better than I am, but... It doesn't wow me that I can write a sentence any more. It has to be a really good sentence. And... I think that's what potentially leads to paralysis in late career, is a kind of killing humility.Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2013
Lionel Shriver
It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of it? Will I forget what she looked like? What it looked like when the sun reflected on her hair? The way her pillow always smelled like her? Will my memory of her run out too?
Keary Taylor
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hays Hammond
Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind.
Jewel E. Ann
Without a second look, your habits and hygiene reflect a lot about you—your thoughts, values, beliefs, priorities, self-esteem, self-respect, confidence, and every other category covered in this book that influence how people perceive you.
Susan C.Young
My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world is controlled by, malignant forces preying on us, a rejection of happy endings and a preference for resolutions heavy with doom, but always redeemed by a breathtakingly vivid poetry of word (if the work was a novel or story) or image (if it was a movie). ("Introduction")
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go.
Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!
Billy Graham
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff
If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.
Cathy Caruth
True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the frame.
Doug Rice
There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.
H.M. Ward
Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.
Debasish Mridha
Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
Nicholas Sparks
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
Louisa May Alcott
I'll leave you two alone. Morality might be contagious.
Howard Tayler
We're human. We all occasionally wet ourselves. No one is really better than anyone else. We're just all trying to make it through the year as best we can. We screw up sometimes. We succeed sometimes. We laugh. We cry. We go on. Those are the things we should really share with each other this holiday season, right, if we dare send a letter? We should share the truth. We should share the insanity.
Wade Rouse
It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
Michael Pollan
The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.
Taylor Stevens
It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.
Corey Ann Haydu
My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.
Thomm Quackenbush
We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.
Corey Ann Haydu
Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available.
Marty Rubin
My position as a follower of God is not to show you how close I am to God—my job is to show you how close you are to God […]. (Simon)
Pete Conrad
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
Robert A. Heinlein
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
Jeannette Walls
You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.
James Randall Robison
Even in my most intimate moments with a man, I am alone.
Maggie Georgiana Young
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison
Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.
Rob Thomas
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.
Ilona Andrews
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Stephen King
You know I meant it. I am human. And male. And not remotely blind. Do you want me to say it again? You are distractingly, even if-that-is-not-a-real-word pretty. You are so pretty that I bullied Clay Whitaker into drawing me a picture of you so I could look at you when you aren't around. You are so pretty that one of these days I'm going to lose a finger in my garage because I can't concentrate with you so close to me. You are so pretty that I wish you weren't so I wouldn't want to hit every guy at school who looks at you, especially my best friend.
Katja Millay
In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act.
Lynn Hoffman
I am saving my love in four parts. One part I will give to my family, because they give life to me. One part I will give to my future husband, because he will be the one who I will accompany with me for the rest of the life. The third part I will give to my husband's family, because if it was not for his mother and father I would not have him. The fourth part I give to myself, because if a woman does not love herself, how she could love another?
Paul Brinkley-Rogers
You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger.
Lauren Myracle
We were what seemed important then, not some label.
Nancy Garden
Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.
Joseph Fink
We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars
Mary Carolyn Davies
Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
Mary E. DeMuth
Extending gratitude to another says, “I see what you’ve done and I thank you for the energy you put forth.
Molly Friedenfeld
Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it.
Debasish Mridha
DeepYou, you’re deep waterAnd I’m scared because I can’t defaulterI don’t know how to swim, So, if I jump in,I’ll be consumed by your waves.I’ll try to keep my head above the rage.But you’ll just swallow up my whole.My entire being will be controlled.If I were to dive,I could no longer thrive.You would consume my being;Leaving me breathless, not breathing.Is there a medium I can prescribe?That would allow me to disguiseThe fear I gather in my bones. I just can’t swim in the water of morone. Do you possess a life supportTo hold me up? My last resort.If I jump in, I’ll drown in bends. Your love is suffocating, nothing can amend.November 20, 2011
Rachel Nicole Wagner
It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.
Susan Andersen
Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You should note that, as nonsensical a scenario, if forced to choose I would most definitely rather live in a failing, Christ-honoring, God-fearing nation than a flourishing one that mocks said Creator. Beware of my personal ambitions.
Criss Jami
Courage is endurance for one moment more
Chelle Bliss
From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.
Sharon Salzberg
You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.
Grant Von Harrison
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn
The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.
Dr. Rob Pennington
Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God’s strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.
Billy Graham
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker
I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.
Sylvia Plath
Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.
Dorothy Parker
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Chuck Palahniuk