Fifer Hobby Quotes & Sayings

Aren't there enough plays already? There are such lovely plays and so many of them. If you were to start playing them you couldn't get through them all in twenty years. Why do you want to write? It must be so upsetting! — Mikhail Bulgakov

All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer. — Rory Freedman

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things. — Ashley Williams

Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, Who taught (to write) with the pen. Taught man what he knew not. — Anonymous

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. — Quentin Blake

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience. — Louise DeSalvo

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company. — Barbara Abercrombie

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. — P. J. O'Rourke

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character. — Pixie Lott

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. — John Lyly

You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not? — Charles Dickens

There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income. — Michelle Singletary

I'm gonna hafta kiss you, Jack, I says.
I wish you would, he says. — Moira Young