Shcherbatsky Quotes

#1. He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.

Marianne Williamson

#3. As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.

Stanley Nelson Jr.

#4. The novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;

Marcel Proust

#5. Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

Ian Rankin

#7. A ward, and still in bonds, one day
I stole abroad;
It was high spring, and all the way
Primrosed and hung with shade;
Yet was it frost within,
And surly winds
Blasted my infant buds, and sin
Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

Henry Vaughan

#8. Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subsid

Farid Al-Din Attar

#9. A long time ago, I heard a piece of advice that went something like "write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't." And that's what I do...

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. And you'd be surprised what you can do to the people you love.

Amanda Hocking

#11. You need to be able to eat what you want to keep sane.

Vi Keeland

#12. God, she was convinced, would look the other way. It was Christmas after all.

Dahlia Schweitzer

#13. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Plato