Finals Week Motivational Quotes & Sayings

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. — George Ripley

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how. — Atul Gawande

With each brick, my hopes faded until nothing was left. If there had ever been a chance of Dominic and my father returning, then the wall took that too. My schoolteacher taught us a new song that thanked our leaders for building a wall to keep the fascists out. I muted my glares and only mouthed the words when my teacher was looking - I couldn't bear to sing the lies. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you. — E.L. James

A painter," he said, as though the word were an insult. "I'm a writer."
"You're a writer? I'm a writer."
"What do you write?"
"Stories. Books. A book. Fiction."
"Fiction. Pfft. That's not writing."
"What do you write?"
"I write the truth."
"Fiction is true. It doesn't have to be factual to be true."
"Says you. Have you been published?"
"As a matter of fact I have. My novel sold over 65,000 copies."
"All to your mom."
"My mom didn't even know about it. — Ben Monopoli

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. — Andy Serkis

I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one. — Rebecca Forster

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama. — Jay Roach

I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic. — Stella McCartney

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. — Fran Lebowitz