Bernds Folding Quotes

#1. Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

Winston Churchill

#2. It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

#3. In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#4. Linda tousled his hair. "What about us girls?"
Jason blushed. "You know what I meant."
"I know." Linda leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks."
Jason turned an uncomfortable shade of purple.

James Rollins

#5. You shouldn't assume everything you don't understand is a message,

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#6. What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Steven Millhauser

#7. I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#8. I think
tide turning
see, as I remember
I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of
it's easy to see a tide turn
did I say those words?

George W. Bush

#9. Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

David Ogden Stiers

#10. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Barack Obama

#11. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream.

Anonymous

#12. What about when they're hibernating? (Leta) The coyotes get them. (Aiden) Well, then, I guess you need to go ahead and shoot me and get it over with. The coyotes are probably starving in this weather. (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero