Zinnser Quotes

#1. Challenge Your Health Before Your Health Challenges You.

Melissa Cady

#2. I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.

Tim Pratt

#3. Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams

#4. Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

Mary Cheney

#5. Appledusk, help me!" The pale brown warrior shook his head. "Why should I? It's your fault that these kits are dead. I never want to see you again.

Erin Hunter

#6. At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

David Sedaris

#7. The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Vikram Seth

#8. What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

Jerry Seinfeld

#9. Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

Thabo Mbeki

#10. I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Nick Hornby

#11. My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

Anamika Mishra

#12. To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

Augustus

#14. What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

Ingeborg Bachmann

#15. The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Groucho Marx