Bi Sheng Quotes

#1. I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

Harlan Coben

#2. Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

Martin Feldstein

#3. I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

Paul Shaffer

#4. I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

Andrew Pyper

#5. The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

Maude Barlow

#6. He nodded nervously. 'He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.'

I stared at him. 'You're scared of bunnies?'

'Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs.

Rick Riordan

#7. If what we presently believe to be true is not producing a Kingdom result, we may need to reconsider what we believe to be true.

Blake L. Higginbotham

#8. I think it's far too easy to blame the American church without acknowledging that we are each part of the church and therefore responsible.

Francis Chan

#9. However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

Laurie R. King

#10. Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Gladys Knight

#11. Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

John Updike

#13. The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

Henri Matisse

#14. We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W.S. Merwin