Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself.

Kit Reed

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Lynn Abbey

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

Lynne Cheney

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Linda Grant

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Laura Anne Gilman

The relationship itself was a croquette, too much flour and milk patted smooth into something it wasn't.

Laura Jacobs

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

Lee Maynard

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

Luanne Rice

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Muriel Barbery

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Malcolm Cowley

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

Molly Gloss

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Michael Koryta

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Michael Kurland

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Merrill Markoe

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

Merrill Markoe

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

Merrill Markoe

We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey.

Maureen F. McHugh

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Ralph Peters

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Powers

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

Ridley Pearson