Godfather Bonasera Quotes

#1. You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Linda Sue Park

#3. Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

Raymond Chandler

#4. By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. But that doesn't mean that the good parts get any less good.

Jessica Sorensen

#6. Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'

Brandon Flowers

#8. I don't care about this stuff. I'm not even sure I'm a girl. I'm an eye in the sky. I am detached. I'm an idiot.

Susan Juby

#9. ( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... )

Salman Rushdie

#10. When in doubt do the right thing!

Carl Andrew Spaatz