Tabitha King Quotes

#1. In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

Tabitha King

#2. Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

Ahmed Yassin

#3. The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.

Eugen Herrigel

#4. Toast your goddamn muffins.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. Tramp stamp. A tattoo in the center of a woman's lower back. Also referred to as a "California bumper sticker." The germans refer to this as "arschgeweih," which translates as "ass antler." Bravo!

Jeff Johnson

#6. I've loved all of my time here.

Tabitha King

#7. Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

Tabitha King

#8. Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for.

Tabitha King

#9. grandmas are allowed to spoil and indulge when mothers are not.

Bobbi Reed

#10. The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies.

Tabitha King

#11. Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

Tabitha King

#12. I myself was so often hell-bound from my sinful pride that I was sinfully proud of it. Mama

Tabitha King

#13. Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

Tabitha King

#14. Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

Tabitha King

#15. she could not bear to let someone else perform a task when she could do it better herself.

Julia Quinn