Coignard Quotes

#1. An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

Anatole France

#2. Say what you want about healthcare in America, but where else in the world can you get free antibiotics by just drinking the milk or eating the chicken

Buddy Winston

#3. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.

Diane Ackerman

#4. When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

Stephen King

#5. Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Immanuel Kant

#6. I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.

William J. Clinton

#7. Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

Julia Cameron

#8. Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#9. Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Nicole Richie