Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Gail Sheehy

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Gail Sheehy

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Gail Sheehy

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Gail Sheehy

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow

Gladys Bronwyn Stern

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Herbert Gold

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

J. R. Moehringer

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do." --Meyer's Law

John D. MacDonald

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

James Van Pelt

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Joel C. Rosenberg

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Joanna Scott

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

John Scalzi

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

John Searles

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

John Searles

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

James Wolcott

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Jennifer Weiner

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward