Desloges Caen Quotes & Sayings

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one. — Annie Proulx

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed. — Tammy Bruce

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption. — Wm. Paul Young

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. — Charles Bukowski

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way. — Nick Nolte

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. — Margaret Bourke-White

I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to. — Sarah Hall