Congeneric Corporation Quotes & Sayings

Rules for writing the first line? The last line?
First line: Make them want more.
Last line: Make them want the next book. — Darynda Jones

Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. — David Baldacci

I think if there's love, for real, it's not something you ever have to say behind cardboard walls. It should be shouted. — Heidi Ayarbe

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record. — Christopher Cross

He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him. — Neal Stephenson

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways. — Stephen R. Lawhead

The figure in front threw back his hood. He had a face the sentry knew, but he gave the password anyway and said, "We found him at the sulphur lake. Says his name is Baruch. He's got an urgent message for Lord Asriel." The — Philip Pullman

Pino at that moment seemed to me like a portal into a long-ago world where the ghosts of war and courage, the demons of hatred and inhumanity, and the arias of faith and love still played out within the good and decent soul who'd survived to tell the tales. — Mark T. Sullivan

I think my mother is beautiful. But her negative feelings about her body can generate a force field that repels any appreciation of it. I've long known the drill: Boobs, too small. Butt, too big. Face, bird-like. Upper arms, old. But it's not just age - she even disparages the way she looks in baby pictures. I don't know why she has never seen herself as beautiful. I think I've been waiting all these years for her to do so, as if that kind of self-love would somehow offer her body to me. But now I realize - she already gave it to me. At times I imagine her in death, and I know that her body, in all its details, will flood me. I do not know how I will survive it. — Maggie Nelson

Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision." Drake — Erle Stanley Gardner

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate. — Seymour Chwast