Gayl Jones Quotes

#1. When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

Gayl Jones

#2. The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Wesley Clark

#3. Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.

Sloan Wilson

#4. You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.

Gayl Jones

#5. Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The French inventor told the acting troupe about Lord Maccon's death.

Gail Carriger

#7. Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.

Charles Stross

#8. I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature ... I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician
not a "good" politician.

Gayl Jones

#9. The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Michel De Montaigne

#10. I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

Gayl Jones