Byong Choi Quotes

#1. If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

Jan Burke

#2. The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [ ... ] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn't mean it can't now bring pleasure to someone.

Manna Francis

#3. It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

Zadie Smith

#4. I was quiet, but I was not blind.

Jane Austen

#5. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

#6. For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.

Junot Diaz

#7. Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

Umberto Eco

#8. And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.

John Eldredge

#9. Just behave and don't do anything you'll regret in the morning." Her gaze drifted over my shoulder, and she mustered, "Wouldn't be much."
"Mom!"
Laughing, she gave me a light shove. "I'm old, not dead.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

Lloyd Alexander

#11. I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

Neil Strauss

#12. Every time words are spoken, something is created. Be conscious of what you say
and how you say it. Use words that build up, appreciate, encourage and
inspire. Lucy MacDonald

Lucy MacDonald

#13. I do not know
if I
will ever be
complete,
but I know
whatever I am,
You
will always be
the rest of
me.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#14. That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted. (107)

Jessica Stern