Gillian Cross Quotes

#1. Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Gillian Cross

#2. Donald Trump really is a fan of the Bible, except that it's far too long for him to read. So he just released a new, improved version, the Gospel According to Trump. It reads: "I, Donald Trump, am God. Praise, worship, and adore Me as I do Myself. Then all shall be Great, as I am Great. The End."

Michael R. Burch

#3. Your greatest moment in life soon joins a series of other moments and is often forgotten. As you rise, so shall you eventually fall.

Twinkle Khanna

#4. Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

Gillian Cross

#5. If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

Gillian Cross

#6. Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

Gillian Cross

#7. I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

Gillian Cross

#8. Rainbows are said to be beautiful!
Rainbows are said to be colourful!
Rainbows may possibly be magical!
But, I have never seen a rainbow appearing in the sky!

Srinidhi.R

#9. The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Gillian Cross

#10. From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Bayard Taylor

#11. I really like the Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony collection - all of those kind of laser-cut leather dresses.

Behati Prinsloo

#12. How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

Stefan Zweig

#13. Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

#14. Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Steve Wozniak

#16. One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Gillian Cross

#17. Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

Kristin Chenoweth

#18. I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Gillian Cross

#19. Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

#20. May the ink of your thoughts never dry.

Joanie Schirm

#21. I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

Timothy Ferriss

#22. The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

Gillian Cross

#23. It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

Renae A. Sauter

#24. My great moment of triumph ... It's all turned to dust. I wasn't the heroine of the hour. I was the thoughtless, stupid villain.

Sophie Kinsella