Chrestomanci Wiki Quotes & Sayings

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. — Thomas Wolfe

Even his ignorance is encyclopedic. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

But when the world and all that's behind it and in it seem black, I tell myself that self-respect and self-mastery are not everything, that faith and belief in the power of prayer are not so wonderful as what we call the ordinary love of two apparently very ordinary people. — William Fryer Harvey

One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices. — Susanna Kearsley

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down. — Lesley Howarth

If you were a wheel
I'd follow your highway.
If you were a raindrop
I wish you'd fall my way.
If you were a gypsy
I'd give a fortune to tell
That whenever I'm with you
I see HEAVEN, not hell ... — Cathy Hopkins

WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line! — Darynda Jones

A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, Ser Imry had declared happily. — George R R Martin

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. — Saul Alinsky