Collaterally Assigned Quotes & Sayings

It is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was asked the age old question today: why are you an author? I suppose there are lots of answers to this question that would suffice, but for me there is really only one answer that will do: the blank paper taunts me, and I am weak. — Richard Due

grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As — David Nicholls

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety. — Jenny Lawson

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally. — Pink

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting. — Jamie Bell

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away. — Natasha Richardson

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told. — Jane Yolen

Sit loosely in the saddle. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm extremely determined and ambitious. — Tamra Davis

It was all too much. I went to bed for three days, sick like an Austen or a Bronte character who'd foolishly wandered the moors in a storm, with a strong will but weak ankles. Only the moors were my mom's past, and I couldn't find my way. — Heather Brittain Bergstrom

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. — Diana Wynne Jones