Cruzan Sayings

#1. Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.

Al Barry

#2. I have this crazy collection of napkins and post-it notes I keep in a box under my desk, which I raid often and replenish constantly.

Catherine Cruzan

#3. I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes. I make where I go. It's that sort of thing.

Paul Eenhoorn

#4. You will find glimpses of my friends, my family, and strangers off the street in everything I write, because I steal from life and then put it in a blender.

Catherine Cruzan

#5. My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It's my mom's fault really, because she read to us a lot, and I loved it.

Catherine Cruzan

#6. For what good is a measure of success when purchased with the coins of error?" In

Daniel J. Koren

#7. Let us be lights of hope! Let us maintain a positive outlook on reality.

Pope Francis

#8. Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it ... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

Tony Hoare

#9. It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

Rick Yancey

#10. Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Francis I

#11. You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to keep doing it even when you can no longer explain why you would even try.

Catherine Cruzan

#12. This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. Kill us in the clear light on the Moon, where the sky is black and soft, where the stars shine brightly, where the cleanliness and purity of vacuum make all things sharp.

- Not in this low-clinging, fuzzy blue.

Isaac Asimov

#14. Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

Shane Claiborne

#15. Trust your instincts. Do not confuse ego with instinct. Ego has to be set aside if you want to improve, and we should always want to improve. There is no glass ceiling on being better.

Catherine Cruzan

#16. I climb into my characters' heads and live there while I write.

Catherine Cruzan