Life Quotes

It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

Willa Holland

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

Will Harvey

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

Will Hobbs

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Will Hobbs

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.

Will Hobbs

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

Will Hobbs

Saving was slow and painful.

William Christopher Handy

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

William Christopher Handy

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

William Dean Howells

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

William Dean Howells

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

William Dean Howells

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

William Dean Howells

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

William Dean Howells

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

William Dean Howells

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

William Dean Howells

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

William Dean Howells

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

William Ernest Henley

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

William Hague

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

William Hague