Moonbeams Preserve Quotes

#1. Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

Dick Costolo

#2. I intended to make it sound guileless and rather sweet but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism without which no book is worth a fart in hell.

John Steinbeck

#3. Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#4. All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

Ernest Shackleton

#6. I've got nothing but the greatest respect for Mrs. Gogol," said Granny. "A fine woman. But talks a bit too much. If I was her, I'd have had a couple of big nails right through that thing by now."
"You would, too," said Nanny. "It's a good thing you're good, ain't it.

Terry Pratchett