Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes

#1. I don't really read as much but i am reading a depressing book on the holocaust ...

Patricia Reilly Giff

#2. All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#3. Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#4. Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Adlai Stevenson I

#5. I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!

Tony Visconti

#6. I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Gavin O'Connor

#7. Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#8. You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#9. If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#10. There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.

Clemence Poesy

#11. The faith state ... is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction ... [p.272]

William James

#12. The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.

Paul Auster

#13. I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#14. Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper ... talking about the things that matter to us.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#15. And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#16. I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#17. What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

Patricia Reilly Giff

#18. The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

Patricia Reilly Giff

#19. I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#20. To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#21. Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#22. When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

Patricia Reilly Giff

#23. Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!

Avijeet Das

#24. It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree ... I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.

Albert Pierrepoint

#25. If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#26. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

Edward De Bono

#27. Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#28. I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#29. I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

Glenn Gould

#30. I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Patricia Reilly Giff