Messinger Quotes

#1. People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]

Mo Willems

#2. How could you love something so destructive?" I ask.
"Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.

Jonathan Messinger

#3. ...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.

Delfi Messinger

#4. Why don't you light that candle ?

Alan Shepard

#5. Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Jean Little

#6. The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

James Plath

#8. Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

Ruth Messinger

#9. You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer.

Lisa See

#10. a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

Charles Stross

#11. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.

Jonathan Messinger

#12. The path of light is quest for knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

Jonathan Messinger

#15. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

Jonathan Messinger

#16. It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.

Ruth Messinger

#17. The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

Ruth Messinger

#18. Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

Jonathan Messinger

#19. When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

Guy Spier

#20. She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career.

Meryl Streep

#21. Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world

Ruth Messinger

#22. Enjoy it well. Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. Hail and be glad.

C.S. Lewis

#23. The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

Jonathan Messinger

#24. How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.

Jonathan Messinger