Quotes About Giff

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

#2. 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

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

#4. 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

#5. Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Jojo Moyes

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

Stephen King

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

#13. Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.

Joy Williams

#14. 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

#15. There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.

Keeley Hawes

#16. I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

Nimrat Kaur

#17. We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

Madonna

#18. 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

#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. Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

#23. Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Jello Biafra

#24. 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

#25. Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. They met a policeman and brought him back. The man rang the bell several times, but there was no answer. Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark. After

Oscar Wilde

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

#28. But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. I am unflappable," Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he'd thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.

Charlie Jane Anders

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

Patricia Reilly Giff

#31. The art of being a great entrepreneur is finding the right balance between vision and reality.

Giff Constable

#32. 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

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

Patricia Reilly Giff