Bjerke Sod Quotes & Sayings

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist. — Henry Adams

In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy's journey to manhood: Masculinity is bestowed. A boy learns who he is and what he's got from a man, or the company of men. He cannot learn it any other place. He cannot learn it from other boys, and he cannot learn it from the world of women. — John Eldredge

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up. — Dave Morris

Giving up drinking for life is easy.
I've done it loads of times. — Peter James West

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. — Ben Hecht

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people. — Tony La Russa

Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time. — Tessa Dare

I like a woman with priorities. — Kyan Douglas

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.' — Rebecca Stead

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. — Teddy Roosevelt

The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood — W.S. Di Piero