Fictioneering Quotes & Sayings

Hope and keep busy', — Louisa May Alcott

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. — Jean Craighead George

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own. — Bill Bryson

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one! — Eleanor Porter

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again. — Christopher Darden

used today are wreaking havoc on all of us, particularly on young children whose brains, immune systems, reproductive systems, and lungs are growing rapidly. "We have abundant — Alan Bell

There is no temptation from outside the heart. — Barbara Hambly

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life. — Chris Hadfield

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul — Michel De Montaigne

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off. — John Eliot

I love meeting new people. — Katie Nolan

The number one reason we don't believe things that are true is because they don't always feel true. — Emily P. Freeman

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. — Rick Perlstein