Bencivenga Ward Quotes & Sayings

Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy. — Harold Evans

Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. — Julian Of Norwich

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. — Jacques Audiard

Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor? — Brandon Mull

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. — Silvano Arieti

The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's
with the fabric of this society itself. — Jodi Picoult

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst. — Virginia Postrel

Driving home, I am struck by the sudden thought that the world is inflatable, trees and grass and houses ready to collapse with the single prick of a pin. I have the sense that if I veer the car to the left, smash through the picket fence and the little Tykes playground, it will bounce us back like a rubber bumper. — Jodi Picoult

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. — L.M. Montgomery

You always obey him? (Medea)If I didn't want to live, I'd stop taking human souls and expire. It would be a lot less painful than crossing Stryker. (Devyn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season. — Marian Seldes

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness. — Chris Prentiss