Gyjak Quotes & Sayings

I know this is new, and you're scared. I'm scared, too. But it's less frightening than the thought of losing you.
-Gavin Taylor — Kary Rader

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it. — Emma Donoghue

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own. — Howard Jacobson

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools. — Prince Philip

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Discussion of how California has 'changed,' then, tends locally to define the more ideal California as that which existed at whatever past point the speaker first saw it: Gilroy as it was in the 1960s and Gilroy as it was fifteen years ago and Gilroy as it was when my father and I ate short ribs at the Milias Hotel are three pictures with virtually no overlap, a hologram that dematerializes as I drive through it. — Joan Didion

In all these interludes with Sevastyan, I hadn't been Natalie. I'd been Natalya. And that brainless hussy didn't seem to know better. — Kresley Cole