Mary Lee Settle Quotes

#1. Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one - had you had the Opportunity? I

Umberto Eco

#2. Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.

Mary Lee Settle

#3. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

Ertharin Cousin

#4. Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

Mary Lee Settle

#5. I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Robyn Hitchcock

#6. Nothing is as good as it seems, and nothing is as bad as it seems. Somewhere in between lies realty.

Lou Holtz

#7. Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Robert Englund

#8. When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Mary Lee Settle

#9. Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Mary Lee Settle

#10. There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Jock Stein

#11. Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

Mary Lee Settle

#12. If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

Cheng Yi

#13. The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Mary Lee Settle

#14. I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

Mary Lee Settle

#16. I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

Emily Browning

#17. Mirabelle, who never takes credit for her attractiveness, believes it is not she he is responding to, but rather something independent of her.

Steve Martin

#18. [The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

Mary Lee Settle

#19. What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Meister Eckhart

#20. With a story, as with a well-chosen gift, we're happiest when surprised by something we didn't know we wanted.

David Mitchell