Goodreads Interview Quotes & Sayings

The nights go on waiting for a light that never comes — Karen Marie Moning

You'll do fine if you have any strength at all, but listen to your Green angel and give yourself more exit points. You're in for some rude awakenings in battle, and young souls often retreat under fire. You'll end up trying to find a shortcut back home and that always makes a big mess. — Dawn Jayne

My gaze crept to where Sadi stood only a few feet from her, breathing heavily. Her white blouse was torn. Buttons popped and missing. Her normally coiffed hair looked like she'd been inside a wind tunnel, but the best part? Fingernail marks were etched down the side of Sadi's face and reddish-blue blood had been drawn. A disturbing level of pride rippled through me. Kitten got claws and then some. "She doesn't play nice with others," Sadi huffed out. "So I'm in the process of adjusting her attitude." "And I'm in the process of getting ready to cut out your heart, bitch." In spite of everything that was so damn messed up, my lips twitched into a small smile. "Get out. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Even the darkest moments of one's life can be turned around and shed light for others. — Neal Shusterman

I get very nervous about not being around the office. — Arash Ferdowsi

We writers always get our revenge on paper — Scott Westerfeld

Is not parody the eternal lot of man? — Milan Kundera

Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it. — Akiva Goldsman

I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality. — Scott Westerfeld

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city. — Dana Spiotta

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better. — Lester Levenson

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads) — Anne Lamott

Their melancholy drains me. Their need exhausts me. I am wrung by pity. Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving it scarred and sore. — Dean Koontz

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy. — George W. Bush