Benchmarked Synonym Quotes

#1. The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true

Stephen King

#2. Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

Nelson Mandela

#3. So who's lucky number three?
No answer.
I turn around to look at him again.
No.
He grins.
Now I get it, I tell him. You're stalking me.

Cynthia Hand

#4. What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?

Sontag, Susan

#5. Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

Jess Walter

#6. I wish I could close my eyes and be
blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.

Lauren Oliver

#7. he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

Duncan Wu

#8. You must be able to bring relevance to people

Sunday Adelaja

#9. As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

John Williams

#10. The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Quintus Ennius

#11. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

#12. La cuestion esta en decidirse en algo, alguna vez.

The gist is in deciding on something, at some time.

Marta Traba

#13. Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

Ernest Hemingway,