Schappell Quotes

#1. We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

E. O. Wilson

#2. The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

William Wordsworth

#3. In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Elissa Schappell

#4. Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war.

Brendon Burchard

#5. The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

Elissa Schappell

#6. You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

Elissa Schappell

#7. Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Elissa Schappell

#8. GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
EDGAR
A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
Am pregnant to good pity.

William Shakespeare

#9. Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Elissa Schappell

#10. I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Donal Logue

#11. Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction ... it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

Elissa Schappell

#12. There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Maxim Gorky

#13. A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

Elissa Schappell

#14. Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Elissa Schappell

#15. He used his soothing tone reserved for cray-cray animals.

Kelly Moran

#16. While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

Elissa Schappell

#17. In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

Richard Jeni

#18. By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Elissa Schappell

#19. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato The Elder

#20. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Elissa Schappell