Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Writers - Page 3
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Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Patience is the art of hoping.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard.
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.
It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
I just have mysteries in all my books, I think, whether it's a boy investigating or a girl. I have an enduring fascination with mysteries of all kinds.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
