Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Writers - Page 17

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.