Top 35 Nicola Griffith Quotes
#1. In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.
Maud Newton
#2. He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.
Henri Michaux
#3. Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
Nicola Griffith
#4. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
Nicola Griffith
#5. There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.
Nicola Griffith
#6. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.
Mitt Romney
#7. 23 For the awages of bsin is cdeath; but the dgift of God is eeternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Anonymous
#8. The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.
Nicola Griffith
#9. Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.
Nicola Griffith
#10. Lore, if you wait for the right moment, you'll wait forever.
Nicola Griffith
#11. Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them.
Wayne W. Dyer
#13. The fact they could check becomes the prophecy they must believe.
Nicola Griffith
#14. Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along.
Nicola Griffith
#15. Hild fetched a lump of grey salt for Mildburh and mortar and pestle to crush it in. She loved the gritty crunch and thump under her hand. It sounded like a cat eating a bird.
Nicola Griffith
#16. I dress to withstand the elements. I dress to be as interesting as the Tate. I dress to insert myself into social strata, to be accepted, to pass.
Caitlynn Cummings
#17. Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#18. My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.
Nicola Griffith
#19. I don't belong to anyone! I'm not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I'm a woman.
Nicola Griffith
#20. Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters ... We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#21. She liked time at the edges of things
the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood
where all must pass but none quite belonged.
Nicola Griffith
#22. I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.
Nicola Griffith
#23. If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
Nicola Griffith
#25. They were connected: the world, her body, her face. Perhaps she should not be asking who she was but, rather, of what she was a part.
Nicola Griffith
#26. There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.
Nicola Griffith
#27. I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.
Dick Gephardt
#28. Look at your reflection," he said, gently cupping my chin in his palm. "I have scanned thousands of faces in my time, Olivia. You were meant to be a leader. It's etched in every line of your face ...
Evette Davis
#30. The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.
Rajneesh
#32. You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.
Nicola Griffith
#33. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles Bukowski
#35. I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.
Nicola Griffith
