Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.

Minae Mizumura

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Richard Powers

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Richard Powers

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Rick Reilly

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

Ron Rash

Vi siete mai chiesti quanto vale una vita umana? Quella mattina la vita di mio fratello valeva un orologio da taschino.

Ruta Sepetys

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Robin Wasserman

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

Susan Cheever

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Planck

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

Marguerite Young

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Núria Añó

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

Núria Añó

Le pays est devenue un territoire où les mathématiques ressemblent un jeu d'enfants: les actifs additionnent et les retraités soustraient.

Núria Añó

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Nicole Krauss

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

Nicole Krauss

Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

Kitty Steals the Show

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

Chelsea Cain

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

Calvin Trillin

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles Dudley Warner

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

Erin Morgenstern

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

Oceans of Fire