Claudette Colvin Favorite Quotes

#1. The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do ... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

Donald Barthelme

#2. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Howard Raiffa

#3. It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Chris Cornell

#4. He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.

Armistead Maupin

#5. Hi, Max," she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls.
"I hope your wearing sunscreen," i said, "your gonna have hella wrinkles by the time your ten."
"Want some daiquiri?" she offered, pointing at a blender.
"Is it traitor flavored?" I asked.

James Patterson

#6. How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Chris Colfer

#8. Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar's, an empire that stretched from the Scots border to the Mediterranean Sea.

Sharon Kay Penman

#9. If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

Maynard James Keenan

#10. A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Mary Pope Osborne

#11. We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining. And because we knew what we had lost but weren't as yet able to put into words what it was we had gained.

Janne Teller

#12. Maybe it was the way of the South to welcome home wayward family members who had no claim to such a piece of history except for a willingness to adopt it as their own and a shared last name.

Karen White

#13. I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.

David Foster Wallace

#14. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

Maude Barlow