Effigy Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow the bills are paid and there's wit and self-sufficiency and divine inspiration seeping through walls and pores. And then, in your mind, you skip ahead to a book launch party and more Siamese cats.

When you graduate from wanting to working, you say, "I am going to flesh out this idea and write the whole thing down, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, and rewrite it unendingly, and I'll have no real assurance of when it'll be good enough, but at some point I'll pitch it to someone who will decide if I'm delusional or not." The optimism and the ego-bruising, unsexy work needed to follow through feels unending. — Kate Inglis

There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don't have tons of money to waste. You — Jim Gaffigan

Don't wish ... DO! Don't try ... BE! Don't think ... KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me? — T.F. Hodge

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy. — Chuck Palahniuk

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse. — Ellen Hopkins

Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike."
Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on."
Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?"
It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels. — Jim Butcher

He may not have been her Prince Charming, but he had definitely just exposed himself as Prince Shit. — Danielle Steel