Etana Quotes & Sayings

Here's tae us. Wha's like us?" "Damned few," she replied in broad Scots, "and they're all deid. — Diana Gabaldon

To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory! — Ezra Jack Keats

Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die. — Lev Grossman

One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen. — Kenneth W. Ford

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher ... — Jessie Redmon Fauset

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself. — Chris LeDoux

The only way to end things completely was to hurt him enough that his fear was stronger than his hate. — Orson Scott Card

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter. — Max Lucado

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career: — Austin Kleon