Bickerstaffe Quakers Quotes

#1. I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books. (p. 5)

Rabih Alameddine

#3. Fiction writing is very seldom a matter of saying things; it is a matter of showing things. However,

Flannery O'Connor

#4. As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.

Kate Williams

#5. Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

Tony Kushner

#6. Well, we all have our specialties, Harold." For example, you are a wanking accountant.

Dylan Schaffer

#7. Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong it is often a very sensible thing to do?

C.S. Lewis

#8. Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

Ernie J Zelinski

#9. Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As

Julia Glass

#10. I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Albert Camus

#12. I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.

Sharon Creech

#13. A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

Herb Kelleher

#14. When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

William J. Clinton