338 Norma Quotes & Sayings

Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write and don't try to please readers who like something different. Otherwise, you'll end up with the worst of both worlds. I write lyrical, introspective, experiential books concerned with consciousness and perception. If a reader wants to know what my protagonist's insurance policies are, he'll be better off curling up with a nice cup of chamomile tea and an actuarial table. Similarly, don't write your books for bad readers. Your books will suffer from bad readers no matter what, so write them for brilliant, big-brained and big-hearted people who will love you for feeding their minds with feasts of beauty. — Paul Harding

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God. — Oswald Chambers

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. — Woodrow Wilson

Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere. — Seamus Heaney

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all. — Jeremiah Burroughs

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. — Leo Burnett

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. — Ernst Mayr

If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation. — Steven Magee

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby. — Gwendolyn Brooks

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole. — Al Yankovic