Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Eleanor Catton

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

Eleanor Catton

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

Eleanor Catton

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

Eleanor Catton

The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.

Eleanor Catton

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

Eleanor Catton

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

Eleanor Catton

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Edward Dahlberg

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God

Elizabeth Gilbert

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

E. W. Howe

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

Erin Hunter

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

Elizabeth Kostova

Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

Edward M. Lerner

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

Elinor Lipman

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Brian Francis