Macondo Foundation Quotes

#1. Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Niall Williams

#2. Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Graydon Carter

#3. The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Philip Roth

#6. I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just ... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

Neale Donald Walsch

#7. I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

Sandra Cisneros

#8. The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?

Ian McGuire

#9. Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.

Margaret Brownley

#10. That's it. Be yourself. Be Isolde Brannick, and they will have no choice but to adore you, He reached out and took my hand, pressing a kiss to the back of it. I was too stunned to do anything but sit there, my hand limp in his.

Rachel Hawkins