Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Julie Burchill

I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.

Jeaniene Frost

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

John Lescroart

I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.

John Scalzi

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Kiran Desai

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

Karen Russell

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Ernest Poole

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Elizabeth Strout

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Elizabeth Strout

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Elizabeth Strout

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

Christopher Koch

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Charles de Lint

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

Colleen McCullough

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Cynthia Ozick

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Carl Sagan