Lloyd Quarterman Quotes

#1. Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)]

Helen Dunmore

#2. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Paul Hawken

#3. I dont want to die"
"Then you shouldnt have been born

Christopher Pike

#4. When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...

Virginia Alison

#5. Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

Kathryn Stockett

#6. The book, Sadie ... Sometimes it's helpful to have someone other than yourself inside your head, because one can slap the other. Duh, the book!

Rick Riordan

#7. The financial markets paid a lot of people extremely well for narrow expertise and a few people, poorly, for the big, global views you needed to have if you were to allocate capital across markets.

Michael Lewis