Quotes of: West-virginia Keyword

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Kim Edwards

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

Cassandra Clare

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Kim Edwards

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Kate Morton

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Marianne Williamson

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

Sherry Argov

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

Tim O'Reilly

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Mary Wesley

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

George Rogers Clark

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Cassandra Clare

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

Cass Elliot

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

Helen Oyeyemi

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.

Douglas Wilder

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Bob McDonnell

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Barbara Pym

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Cassandra Clare

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Gwendoline Riley

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joyce Carol Oates