Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know," said Ray. "My mums a plumber.

David Bischoff

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Diane Mott Davidson

Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.

David Drake

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

Dani Harper

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Derrick Jensen

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

Derrick Jensen

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

David Liss

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Daniel Keys Moran

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Daniel Keys Moran

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Daniel Keys Moran

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

Denise Mina

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Denise Mina

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Denise Mina

It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

Denise Mina

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Denise Mina

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

Denise Mina

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.

Dinaw Mengestu

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Julia Cameron

Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.

Jeffrey Carver

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

Jonathan Dee