Top 43 Holly Lisle Quotes
#1. In this moment, in whatever form it comes, lies the only opportunity I will ever have to act, to think, to love. Only this moment, out of every moment I have ever lived, or will ever live, allows me to matter now.
Holly Lisle
#2. Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
Holly Lisle
#3. I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
Holly Lisle
#4. Actions have consequences ... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle
#5. I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips ... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
Holly Lisle
#6. If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.
Holly Lisle
#7. Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada's search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.
Holly Lisle
#8. I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.
Holly Lisle
#9. The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#10. I thought news was despicable. It was publicly-supported gossip, invasion into the lives and sufferings of strangers, and the love of it represented an unconscionable desire to destroy the privacy of people whose lives had been thrown into turmoil.
Holly Lisle
#11. Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.
Holly Lisle
#12. Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.
Holly Lisle
#13. The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image ... indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.
Guy Kawasaki
#14. With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.
Anonymous
#15. Act to prevent the worst thing that could happen if you don't act.
Holly Lisle
#16. I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
John Wooden
#17. Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.
Holly Lisle
#18. Writing is a puzzle you'll spend your lifetime unlocking. You will never know it all; you will never know enough. You can always be better, and figuring out how to be better is part of the thrill and joy of the job.
Holly Lisle
#19. The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.
Holly Lisle
#20. You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
Holly Lisle
#21. Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.
Holly Lisle
#22. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him ...
Emily Bronte
#23. I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.
Holly Lisle
#24. A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.
Holly Lisle
#25. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.
Edward Abbey
#26. First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.
Holly Lisle
#27. Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.
Holly Lisle
#29. Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Studs Terkel
#30. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
Holly Lisle
#31. The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book
Holly Lisle
#32. The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
Holly Lisle
#33. This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.
Holly Lisle
#34. Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time
life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
Holly Lisle
#35. May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together safely from wherever we have wandered, to wherever we dare call home.
Holly Lisle
#36. The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Henry James
#37. People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
John Walsh
#38. Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Mahalia Jackson
#40. Life is sad and there is nothing we can do about it. All we can is to be vigilant about what we should not do. The worst thing we can do is to not feel the sadness, to not weep, to not acknowledge the hurt that sits at the core of the human heart.
Martha M. Moravec
#41. I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#42. If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
#43. The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
Suheir Hammad
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