Gjreagin Quotes & Sayings

time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I'm not talking about hours or even days. I'm talking about weeks. Don't make the amateurish mistake of getting a hot premise and immediately running off to write scenes. You'll get twenty to thirty pages into the story and run into a dead end you can't escape. — John Truby

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory. — Erwin Schrodinger

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. — Judy Garland

In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles. — Malcolm Gladwell

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible. — Shailene Woodley

Our bodies live separately from each other, but we are deeply connected with each other, through our belly buttons, to the Source of life. — Ilchi Lee

All my supplies are gone and I'm going to die out here. I thought it would be more frightening, dying, but after so many days walking, after so much hunger and thirst, it's a release. — Joaquin Lowe

Faith is a gift-but you can ask for it. — Fulton Oursler

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss. — Bill Bryson

A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound. — Cormac McCarthy

Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were. — Meredith Duran

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. — Sylvia Plath

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined. — Mark Twain

You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile. — Cath Crowley

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship. — Paul David Tripp