Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Gloria Naylor

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

Jonathan Evison

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Marilyn French

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Ann Beattie

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Clyde Edgerton

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Francine Rivers

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George W. S. Trow

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Lane Allen

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'

Jeff Greenfield

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Joe Klein

I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. I can't even remain in the same room with coffee.

Mark Helprin

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Pat Conroy

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

Pat Conroy

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Robert T. Bakker

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Simon Van Booy

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Stephen Hunter

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

Sara Paretsky