First Novel Contests Quotes & Sayings

You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you — Benny Bellamacina

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was. — Paul Desmond

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed. — Joe Trohman

Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful. — Hans Heysen

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it. — Edward Rutherfurd

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? — Jodi Picoult

No one is ever successful at everything that they do. — Dolly Parton

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete — Kay Redfield Jamison

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius — Barbara Cooney

Where does it lead, this rockrose path? — Laura Treacy Bentley

Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.

Justin in CRIMSON RAPTURE — Jennifer Horsman