Zahra Amir Quotes

#1. I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent.

Stephen Graham Jones

#2. When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.

Jan Shipps

#3. Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

Jessie Burton

#4. Judge them not equally.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#5. And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

John Steinbeck

#6. Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Joel Osteen

#7. My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

#8. If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

Kiran Desai

#9. Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.

Tom Cunningham

#10. If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Bryant McGill