Grapping Quotes

#1. So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting.

Diane Ackerman

#2. All my favorite things start as bad ideas.

Julie Murphy

#3. Because it wasn't the looks that really made him sizzle; it was the pure sex that reeked from his pores, the cocky confidence that dominated every move, every touch.

Alessandra Torre

#4. It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

Richard Dreyfuss

#5. The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind.

Memphis Slim

#6. What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.

Kate Morton

#7. The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail ... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Jeff Cooper

#8. If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

Steve Erickson