Birthgrave Quotes & Sayings

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does. — Tanith Lee

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work. — Aminu Kano

Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent. — Greg Wise

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet. — P.G. Wodehouse

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level. — Matt Groening

Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it. — Erin Moure

But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself. — George R R Martin

I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do. — Lisa Genova

How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds! — James Shirley

Life is neither a party nor pain. But a prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie. — Stephen King

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits. — Isaac Of Nineveh

I've been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with 'The Birthgrave' and 'The Storm Lord.' Only recently did I discover, to my delight, how many more of her books I've yet to read. — Neal Asher