Top 32 Crossley Quotes
#1. [Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.
James Wolcott
#2. Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.
Robert Crossley
#3. I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#5. In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Marc Benioff
#6. Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#7. Think of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' It is equally intoxicating for children and adults. All this 'crossover' talk is something publishers are using as a selling device - a kind of post hoc rationalisation of what was happening already.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#8. Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#9. BTW, notice that cannot is all one word! That is a very frequent mistake, also," said Grandpa. "You don't write can not, it is cannot." "Hey, why is did not two words and cannot is one word?" asked Morgan. "Go ask your mother," smiled Grandpa.
John Choisser
#10. Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#11. What the hell are you doing with my underwear?"
He kept his response flippant. "I don't have this color in my collection.
Miranda Liasson
#12. Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#13. I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.
Seth Godin
#14. Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#15. For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#16. Some things in our lives, we think about, we hope for, we dream of, we half believe. But some we just know. And what I know, Laura, is that if you practise and learn to play this instrument, the day will come when angels stop and listen to you.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#17. The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#18. If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love ... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.
Joss Whedon
#19. Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say.
Rosemary Crossley
#20. Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#21. Because you know something won't ever happen, it doesn't stop you longing for it.
I know I'll never be able to speak or sing with my own voice.
I don't know why.
I wish I did.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#22. I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger
#23. I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#25. That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#26. Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#27. When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#28. There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#29. To quote or not to quote that is syntactically correct
Me
#31. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#32. Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children.
There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
