Dorini Transport Quotes

#1. I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

Christine Quinn

#2. If you play golf, you are my friend.

Harvey Penick

#3. Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)]

Helen Dunmore

#4. Instead of, "Excellent work."
Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."

Instead of, "Good job following directions."
Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.

Julie King

#5. Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

Peter Elbow

#6. The Internet is a big distraction.

Ray Bradbury

#7. Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost.

Kwame Alexander

#8. I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.

Christopher Barzak

#9. There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

Natalie Imbruglia

#10. The worst things weren't outside of you.

Cynthia Voigt

#11. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#12. Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

Stephen Jay Gould

#13. There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

Elizabeth Hernandez