Famous Canadian Author Quotes & Sayings

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do. — Ben Whishaw

Royce stared at him a second. "What?"

"You heard me-you hear every stupid thing anyone ever says. That's the most annoying thing about you. Well, not the most -it's actually really hard to order them. The list is so ridiculously long. — Michael J. Sullivan

A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life. — Frederick Lenz

I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement. — Raf Simons

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it.
When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out.
If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it.
Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow. — Alan Cohen

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody. — James Baldwin

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small. — John Wesley

We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

a page is not a four sided white void
in which to practice zeroness. — Ed Sanders

Life is short...eat desert first! — Wendy Mass

You can't find what doesn't exist, but you can create it. — Ron Kaufman

But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. — Zadie Smith