Liotto Vicenza Quotes

#1. If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

Poppy Z. Brite

#2. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

Pope John Paul II

#3. You cannot win if you cannot run.

Hank Stram

#4. The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Wendy Williams

#5. It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method ...

Bret Harte

#6. Our best chance for happiness is education.

Mark Van Doren

#7. Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

Archibald Marwizi

#8. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#9. What was the worst thing you've ever done?
I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me ... the most dreadful thing ...

Peter Straub

#10. I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

Susan Downey

#11. Words, and faith, will only take you as far as your actions allow.

Carlos Wallace

#12. Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Bobby Fischer