Gutcheon Beth Quotes & Sayings

It would, of course, have to look like an accident. — Anne Taintor

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof. — Aeschylus

You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence? — Beth Gutcheon

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. — Beth Gutcheon

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children. — Beth Gutcheon

I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't. — Beth Gutcheon

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like. — Beth Gutcheon

Raymond, through some curious alchemy of his own, had come really to think a divorce was something you could win, as opposed to a situation in which the wounded attempt to contain loss. She once said to her friend Annie, "It's like fighting over who gets the litterbox after the cat is dead. Raymond has forgotten we ever had a cat; he actually wants the litterbox. Full." She said Annie had laughed and then Martha cried — Beth Gutcheon

Pressure works, but it needs to be organized. This is the domain of the NGOs and the rock stars. — Paul Collier

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be. — Russell Simmons

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write. — Barbara Boxer

Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun? — Beth Gutcheon

Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself — David Miliband

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story. — Beth Gutcheon

Bookstore withdrawal - who would suspect such a thing existed? — Cherise Sinclair

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn. — Beth Richardson Gutcheon

I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions do anything, particularly when they taste bad. — Ian Fleming

just such beings as they were when they were on earth. — Anonymous

She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly - our painful souvenir from holding Atlas's burden. There was a lot I'd wanted to say to Annabeth, but Athena had taken the confidence out of me. I felt like I'd been punched in the gut.
I do not approve of your friendship with my daughter.
"So," Annabeth said. "What did you want to tell me earlier?"
The music was playing. People were dancing in the streets. I said, "I, uh, was thinking we got interrupted at Westover Hall. And ... I think I owe you a dance."
She smiled slowly. "All right, Seaweed Brain."
So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too. — Rick Riordan

I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other. — Beth Gutcheon

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. — Michael Ignatieff

...the thought of *never again* felt like death. — Robin Black

Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is "god-sibling"? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect. — Beth Gutcheon

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing. — Marc Maron