Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Sara Gruen

90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?

Sara Gruen

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

Stephen Hunter

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

Sue Monk Kidd

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

Steve Kluger

I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught

Sue Monk Kidd

I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Sarah Monette

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Sara Paretsky

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

Sara Paretsky

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?

Sara Sheridan

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Stanley Schmidt

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

Sara Sheridan

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

Sara Sheridan

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

Sara Sheridan

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

Sara Sheridan

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Sara Sheridan

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Sara Sheridan