Engraved Compass Quotes

#1. 'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

John Webster

#3. You will see true character after a defeated ambition

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Christalyn Brannen

#5. I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

Amy Tan

#6. And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. I sleep as much as I want. I'll sleep, like, 11 hours, unless I'm working. Sometimes I do feel like, 'This is weird; I should just get up so I can fit into the world.' Then I'm like, 'Why?' I don't have a nine-to-five job.

Heather Graham

#8. Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but ...

Malorie Blackman

#9. We can burst the bonds which chain us,
Which cold human hands have wrought,
And where none shall dare restrain us
We can meet again, in thought.

Charlotte Bronte

#10. You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

Robert Wise

#11. Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Andy Warhol