Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

Glen Hirshberg

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

George Packer

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

Hilari Bell

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

Hallie Ephron

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Helen Garner

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Helen Garner

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Hannah Kent

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Hannah Kent

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

Hannah Kent

Physical pain inspires the worst kind of helplessness.

Hiromi Kawakami

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

Harry Mathews

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Harry Mathews

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

Harry Mathews

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

Harry Mathews

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

Judith McNaught

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

Jo-Ann Mapson

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Jayne Anne Phillips