Amosson Quotes & Sayings

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world' ... — Dan Simmons

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique. — Karen Kain

Know your margins; then focus on growing the business. — Ehab Atalla

Be a good animal,true to your instincts. — D.H. Lawrence

I was surprised how I was feeling on the court because I was focused only on the point and on the game and not on the final. — Petra Kvitova

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong. — William Cobbett

My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world. — William Styron