Creaney And Smith Quotes

#1. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters

#2. If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Mignon McLaughlin

#3. For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#5. My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?

Eddie Vedder

#7. There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Cesare Pavese

#8. I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Viola Davis

#9. Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Horace Bushnell

#10. This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.

Sarah Palin

#11. If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Louis Kahn

#12. You have this weird look on your face," he said. "Like you're doing really complicated math in your head.

Rachel Hawkins