Carranor Quotes & Sayings

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice. — Diana Gabaldon

All the people around Hester hate her and despise her and think she's a total freak. The kid's beyond human law and human consideration. How do you feel about yourself when every human being you hear and see and smell every day of your being thinks you're worse than garbage? Your conception of who you are has always, at least partially, depended on how the people around you behaved towards you ... You don't know. How can you know anything? How can you know anything? You begin to go crazy. — Kathy Acker

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran

Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] — Thomas A Kempis

Elegance is not everything. — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie