Debut Author Quotes

#1. In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world.

E. B. Lewis

#2. He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.

Heather Demetrios

#3. Even Mom doesn't understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that's left is one big question mark.

Heather Demetrios

#4. We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

Robert Heilbroner

#5. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

Heather Demetrios

#6. We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

David Bezmozgis

#7. I would never directly contradict anything Neil deGrasse Tyson says, because - compared to Neil deGrasse Tyson - my skull is a bag of hammers. I'm

Chuck Klosterman

#8. If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.

Heather Demetrios

#9. Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times ...
... Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on ...
Quote on the Title Page of Love TORN Asunder

Elizabeth Funderbirk

#10. Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

Justin Kan

#11. I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it
that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.

Heather Demetrios

#12. There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#13. I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years,

Steve Young

#14. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

Heather Demetrios

#15. The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Parker J. Palmer

#16. Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.

Heather Demetrios

#17. Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.

Heather Demetrios

#18. Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

Simon Sinek

#19. Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

Mickey Rooney

#20. Progress is made by walking down the path, more progress is made, by walking down the right path.

Dixie Waters

#21. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.

Humairaa Anseline

#22. With exotic settings, sensual conflict, and an intriguing hint of Italian history, Katherine Bone's contemporary debut captivated me!"

Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author

Katherine Bone

#23. You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.

Heather Demetrios

#24. Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. God, it's like I have something, deep down inside of me, that i think is undeserving of love.

Jeff Lindsay

#26. It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Carlos Slim

#27. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

Heather Demetrios

#28. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

Heather Demetrios

#29. I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

Ian McKellen

#30. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.

Beth Revis