Top 22 Castellani Quotes
#1. [Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.
Abraham Foxman
#2. I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.
Christopher Castellani
#3. I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together.
Christopher Castellani
#4. These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value.
Erika Johansen
#5. You know, sweetheart, I know I'm fucked up. But if you think the guy trying to protect you instead of walk all over you is the one trying to run your life, you're just as fucked up as I am.
Lisa Renee Jones
#6. Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.
Christopher Castellani
#7. I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#8. I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.
Christopher Castellani
#9. I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.
J.K. Rowling
#10. Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.
Christopher Castellani
#11. Characters are the lifeblood of any
good book.
Craig Hart
#12. I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
Ethel Waters
#14. If loving what you do = doing what you love.
Never compromise on your passion.
K.J. Kilton
#15. You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.
Jason Jack Miller
#16. Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.
C. G. Jung
#17. I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
Christopher Castellani
#19. Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program ... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.
Jose Rodriguez
#20. I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
#21. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
Ian Fleming
#22. A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
