Hedgebrook Farm Quotes

#1. The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

Dana Stabenow

#2. Send a bigger bear.

Mark Lawrence

#3. When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Sivamani

#4. RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Anne Tyler

#6. I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.

Peter Shaffer

#7. He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#8. It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

Mark Rydell

#9. A busybody's work is never done.

A. N. Wilson

#10. It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar corporation and a world renowned research laboratory, then I should also be able to apply this genius in the magical field.

George Pendle

#11. God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

Francois Fenelon

#12. The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

William Shenstone

#13. Old gods die hard. They hold on, they creep in, they quietly clutch at us.

Kyle Idleman

#14. You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Ayn Rand

#15. The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know ... so I made my own world.

Bijan

#16. No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

Christian Camargo