Funniest Mpgis Quotes

#1. Blood always excites me.

Jonathan Latimer

#2. Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

Jane Yolen

#3. Her lips slid into a foxy grin. I made little Van voodoo dolls and stabbed them with toothpicks.

Pam Godwin

#4. In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence. Maybe people have a deep congenital awareness that no civilization lasts forever, that the most peaceful prosperity will someday have to end, or maybe it's just human nature

Jonathan Franzen

#5. The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

Brian Koppelman

#6. Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

Jon Katz

#7. Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

Robert Munsch

#8. But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry at all.

Therese May

#9. They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

Pablo Picasso