Bentz Chamber Quotes & Sayings

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell

I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that. — Paul Giamatti

Yes, Kinney?" said Cinder. "The captain and his crew are requesting an audience." "Ha!" Thorne's voice carried from the corridor. "I told you I could get him to call me the captain. — Marissa Meyer

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young. — Emma Roberts

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. — Abraham Lincoln

The remedy is worse than the disease. — Francis Bacon

Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect. — Alexander McCall Smith

Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot. — Phyllis Logan

Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. — Archibald Rutledge

I'm not scared of death as much as I am of life. — Minhal Mehdi

when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The — Brittainy C. Cherry

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. — Whittaker Chambers

I love you. Forever and a day. — Harper Bentley

I was weeping as much for him as her: we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. — Emily Bronte