Balster Wood Quotes & Sayings

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something. — Haruki Murakami

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity. — Jerry Thomas

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect. — Gillian Flynn

[T]he gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape. — George Washington

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. — Russell Baker

These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser on when I get out of the shower. Learning to honour myself and believing that I'm worth taking care of. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

The treasures of life are hidden in a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that? — Joe Abercrombie

There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire. — John Scalzi

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not. — Tom Scharpling

Lately I've been runnin' on faith. What else can a poor boy do? — Jerry Lynn Williams