Cathy Ryan Quotes & Sayings

Defiance means you got somebody with power over you. — Pearl Cleage

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. — William Randolph Hearst

I've got four sons in the army, but I'm not crying about it. It's all in God's hands: you may die in your bed, or God may spare you in battle, — Leo Tolstoy

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. — Edward Abbey

If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones. — Peggy McIntosh

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art. — Jerome Charyn

The second part of how to hire: try not to. — Sam Altman

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. — Ernest Hemingway,

Introspection leads to insights; insights tell us what needs to change. — Sam Owen

I think once an author is attacking people for leaving Amazon reviews, common sense has shut up shop and gone home, and the best thing to do is not engage at all. — K.J. Charles

If it's an abomination, Dad, you're just doing it wrong. Bear down hard, then release. It'll fit better. — Tiffany Reisz

You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl. — Nikki Rowe

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are. — Paul J. McAuley

Yes. You do understand, you do. I knew you would. It was that analogy you made to the Quran that got me thinking in the first place. Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction. The stag and the doe and the trap. Instead of working with linear strings of ones and zeroes, the computer could work with bundles that were one and zero and every point in between, all at once. If, if, if you could teach it to overcome its binary nature."
"That sounds very complicated indeed."
"It should be impossible, but it isn't." Alif began typing furiously. "All modern computers are pedants. To them the world is divided into black and white, off and on, right and wrong. But I will teach yours to recognize multiple origin points, interrelated geneses, systems of multivalent cause and effect. — G. Willow Wilson

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth."
"Really? Did it work?"
"Well, I haven't had a toothache since I met her."
"I'd much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something — Patricia C. Wrede

If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan — Tom Clancy