Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Katherine Paterson

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

Anton LaVey

Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Robert Creeley

Form is never more than an extension of content.

Robert Creeley

Hopefully, I write what I don't know.

Robert Creeley

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

Robert Creeley

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Cormier

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

Robert Cormier

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Richelle Mead

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

Ronda Rousey

I've never had anything cold and wet touching my butthole before. That was quite the experience!

Sarah Rees Brennan

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Henry Rollins

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Pope Francis

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

Natsuki Takaya

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Saint Augustine

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

Chris Carlisle

I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?' I never had that time.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

Warren Buffett

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Werner Herzog

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

Walker Percy

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

William Cowper

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.