Venita Wolf Quotes

#1. The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.

Susan Cain

#2. They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

Kate Clinton

#3. Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

#4. You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

Timothy Keller

#6. Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

Rob Thomas

#9. Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Francis Bacon

#10. Being yourself takes less energy than being someone else.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

Georges Jacques Danton

#12. I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

Raina Telgemeier

#13. I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

Lauren Groff

#14. Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in!

Sheila Kitzinger

#15. Love is the only gold.

Alfred Tennyson