Autua Quotes

#1. My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to ask what rhymes with what: - "Streams of blood"? "Themes of mud"? "Robin Hood"?

David Mitchell

#2. What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.

Peter Straub

#3. Killing rips the soul apart.

J.K. Rowling

#4. I recently published a new book. It's a Christian urban fantasy about mad science gone wrong. And then after I'd written that in a blurb I thought to myself - when does mad science ever go right?!

Greg Curtis

#5. It was her personal view that people who are overly choosy about the drinks they order in a bar tend to be sexually bland. She had no idea why this should be so.

Haruki Murakami

#6. That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

George Bernard Shaw

#7. I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe ... and probably a period. I'm a huge fan of punctuation.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#9. I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

E. O. Wilson

#10. What we want is to become masters in our own house.

Michael Ignatieff

#11. Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Randy Falco

#12. C'mon baby light for me!

Cody Lundin

#13. Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

Cathy Guisewite

#14. The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

Seth Godin