Hookham Frere Quotes

#1. The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

John Hookham Frere

#2. I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

Roger Zelazny

#3. It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.

George Orwell

#4. Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

Alveda King

#5. He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity.

Ellen Miller

#6. Some encounter me in person, know I am a writer, and don't trust the value of my words. Some encounter my books, know me later, and don't trust the value of my friendship. Both doubt themselves.

Robin Sacredfire

#7. Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

John Hookham Frere

#9. I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

Margarita Levieva

#10. I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.

Bethany Mota

#11. A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

John Hookham Frere