Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

E. W. Howe

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

E. W. Howe

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Elizabeth Janeway

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Edward M. Lerner

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

Edward M. Lerner

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Edward M. Lerner

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Elinor Lipman

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

E. V. Lucas

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Barry Hannah

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Billie Letts

He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added.

Brandon Mull

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

Chris Bohjalian

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Claire Cameron

And you still haven't answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.

Greg Farshtey

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

Gloria Naylor

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer