Canadian Writer Quotes

#1. I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Miriam Toews

#2. It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.

Lynn Coady

#3. If you do not trust your people, you will not get their whole-hearted effort and you will not capitalize on the enormous creative potential of cohesive and motivated teamwork. It

Jeff Atwood

#4. There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Robert Kazinsky

#5. Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude ...

William Butler Yeats

#6. There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

Zygmunt Bauman

#7. She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.

Jonathan Tropper

#8. Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.

Wylie Dufresne

#9. I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they didn't do as much of when the show was 100 percent written by Brits just because I'm not sure they were quite as familiar with some of these little moments in our government system.

David Mandel

#10. Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

Rudy Wiebe

#11. Play to win, but enjoy the fun.

David Ogilvy

#12. There's always a prayer, a nighean, even if it's only A Dhia, cuidich mi. Oh, God - help me.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. My whole family's gonna be set for life and I'm not stopping rappin until that happens. I already know I got a five year plan. I'm 26 now and I'm gonna bow out on my 31st birthday. Peace, later, holla, I'm gone.

Jayceon Terrell Taylor

#14. The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true ... or being afraid it is.

Terry Goodkind

#15. Do I worship God or what other people think of me?

Andy Mineo

#16. The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).

Georges St-Pierre

#17. But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes hard work and a hundred hard choices every day.

Greg M. Epstein