David Wroblewski Quotes

#1. Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time. You had to know your way around if you wanted to fall in love with a woman.

Ted Dekker

#2. You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie.
- Eric, Club dead.

Charlaine Harris

#3. If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

Vanilla Ice

#4. It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

David Wroblewski

#5. In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light ...

David Wroblewski

#6. All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Alexander MacLaren

#7. It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Wroblewski

#8. Do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

David Wroblewski

#9. Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter.
Anything can happen, though.
Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

David Wroblewski

#10. He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

N.J. Berrill

#12. She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.

Tristram Stuart

#14. Say 'Ah.'"
A-H-H-H-H, he fingerspelled.
Doctor Frost glanced at his mother.
"He just said 'ah' for you," she said weakly, and smiling.
"Okay, sense of humor intact," the doctor said. "Try anyway.

David Wroblewski

#15. Only two percent of the world's population have green eyes."
Kell said it so Gethin would turn and look at him full on. He did. Moss green. Lagoon green. A tiger's eyes. He wished he had the perfect words to describe the colour. Exotic. Exciting. Sexy.

Barbara Elsborg

#16. When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

#17. I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.

David Beckham

#18. Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that

Alex Flinn

#19. In her life, she'd been nourished and sustained by certain things, him being one of them, Trudy another, and Edgar, the third and most important, but it was really the three of them together, intersecting in her, for each of them powered her heart in a different way.

David Wroblewski

#20. I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions ... And I could never believe blindly.

John O'Donohue

#21. It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

David Wroblewski

#22. Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

David Wroblewski

#23. Abdication Isn't Empowerment

Miles Anthony Smith

#24. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski

#25. You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

David Wroblewski

#26. You can fight it or you accept it. The only difference is, if you accept it, you can get to do other things. If you fight it, you're stuck in the same spot forever

David Wroblewski

#27. And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.

David Wroblewski

#28. Others dreamed of finding a person in the world whose soul was made in their mirror image, but Almondine and Edgar had been conceived nearly together, grown up together, and however strange it might be, she was his other. Much could be endured for that.

David Wroblewski

#29. Mentor is someone who has already done what you want to do and is successful at doing it. Don't find an advisor. An advisor is someone who tells you how to do it but may not have personally done it.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#30. The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.

David Wroblewski

#31. I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

David Wroblewski

#32. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents - the rest you let float by.

David Wroblewski

#33. What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.

Geoff Tibballs