Brendalyn Quotes & Sayings

[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life
the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes
ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases. — Tom Bissell

Levana knew a great deal about beauty, just as she knew a great deal about ugliness. — Marissa Meyer

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony — Alan Watts

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. — Tracy Chapman

It mingles in seas of carousels
It becomes the past and knows it not. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

This cat-and-mouse could not last forever, and he also knew that when you are the mouse you don't have much to say about it to the cat. — Robert Olmstead

Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together. — Jeff Grubb

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. — Anne Lamott

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully. — Julie Foucher

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles. — Czeslaw Milosz

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. — Immanuel Kant

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. — Vannevar Bush

Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee; — H. Rider Haggard

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect. — Delta Goodrem

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down. — Dana Hill