Platkin On Sb Quotes

#1. I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Aaron Eckhart

#2. Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Evan Williams

#3. When a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. it may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you

Dean Jackson

#4. You are so ... "
He grinned. "Charming? Handsome? Intriguing?"
"I was going to say confusing."
"Ahh." He nodded in an astute manner. "We'll slot that under intriguing.

Linda Kage

#5. I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Lupita Nyong'o

#6. He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

John Green

#7. One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

Erich Warsitz

#8. You were wrong, Gram," I said softly, tone emotionless because I was resigned to the awful, lonely truth of it. "Love doesn't save our souls. It kills them.

R.K. Lilley

#9. The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#10. Oscore is my favorite model," he says. "He has a very strange face. I don't know if you notice. God was very drunk when he made him. A little bit of this. A little bit of that. Brown eye. Green eye. Crooked nose, crooked mouth. Lunatic smile. Chipped tooth. Scar here, scar there. It is a puzzle.

Jandy Nelson

#11. With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

Douglas Kennedy

#12. The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.

Milan Kundera

#13. When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.

Steven J. Lawson