Sjoberg And Tebelius Quotes

#1. The "if I had time" lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born - without the luxury of time.

Julia Cameron

#2. As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Katherine Paterson

#3. Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

Louise Hart

#4. Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Don Meyer

#5. Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

#6. He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.

Emily Bronte

#7. We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.

Will Rogers

#8. Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now.

Kenneth Oppel