Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

Jim Butcher

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Jack L. Chalker

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

Jennifer Chiaverini

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal.

Jessica Cutler

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

Jilly Cooper

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

Jilly Cooper

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.

Dennis L. McKiernan

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

Daphne du Maurier

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

David Markson

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Don Roff

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

Don Roff

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

Don Roff

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Don Roff

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Don Roff

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

Don Roff

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

Don Roff

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Dean Wesley Smith

I try to remember that the job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

Dani Shapiro

Suddenly I'm happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is - not a dream or a promise - just living for the moment.

Delphine de Vigan

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Daniel Woodrell

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Ernest Bramah