Gayner Mason Quotes & Sayings

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. — Terry Pratchett

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! — Claudius Galenus

I know you've been aching to have your hands on my staff," I said to Ascher, as Nicodemus examined the altar for himself. I held out my hand. "But I'd rather be the one fondling my tool. Wizards are weird like that."
"Wow," she said, and flashed me a grin, her face flushed, excited. "You left me nowhere to go with that one. I have nothing to add. — Jim Butcher

Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you start jotting down what you're feeling. It's more than an escape into the unknown, a refuge for your creativity and sometimes wild imagination not all ordinary, ungifted people like us understand. -Elizabeth's Quotes — Elizabeth E. Castillo

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more. — Amanda Eliasch

I don't go where people are. I go where the people aren't. — Paul Walker

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises. — Elizabeth Zimmermann

Books join us together as a global reading community, but more important, a global human community striving to learn from the past. What — Ruta Sepetys

I will never be old, Rachel promised herself. I will never be sad. I'd scarf a cyanide capsule first, kill myself like that friend of Lotto's everyone is crying about. Life isn't worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year. Under the dying — Lauren Groff

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway,

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes. — Erik Naggum