164 quotes found
“For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.”
“I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.”
“Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.”
“Show me the contract.”
“A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.”
“Writer. Another word for poor.”
“There is no shame in being afraid.”
“The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. .... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those ...”
“Study the sky but never love it, Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”
“The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.”
“I am so over you, Rejection. You can't get to me like that anymore. I won't let you squash my hopes and dreams. (Slams door) So there!”
“If rejections were cash, I'd be rich”
“It seemed strange to Kellan that the more people were crowded together, the less they were willing to acknowledge it; their interaction became a thing of unwelcome necessity and their gaze turned e...”
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”
“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
“When Kylie was ready, Blair went into her friend’s room and lay next to her on the bed. Blair started to thread her fingers through the doctor’s soft curls, speaking to her in a soothing voice. “It...”
“Love does not judge.”
“And, like all the others, I have been manipulated to suit Ted’s needs. I don’t feel particularly embarrassed or resentful about that. I was one of many, all of us intelligent, compassionate people ...”
“With a few notable exceptions, state and local government officials had completely failed to do their jobs. Official incompetence, bureaucratic inertia, neglect, and the desire to protect abortion ...”
