Falter Book Quotes & Sayings

That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand. — Billie Piper

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini. — Al Silverman

The only question is, what are you going to do now? — Julie Kagawa

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist. — Kent Nerburn

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. — Booker T. Washington

I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. — Lee Daniels

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. — David Guterson

Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. — Bret Lott

Her fangs cut into her lips, and with a nearly orgasmic release, she sent out her claws. — Laken Cane

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is. — Erykah Badu

Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have. — Dan Miller

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at. — Jean-Marc Bustamante

I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself. — F.K. Preston

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't. — David Benioff

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? — Christopher Marlowe

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it. — Wallace Stegner