Hagadone Directories Quotes & Sayings

Your wife tolerates your weaknesses and does not rant or scold, and if she worries, it is only because she wants you to live forever. You count the reasons why you have held her close to you for so many years, and surely this is one of them, one of the bright stars in the vast constellation of enduring love. — Paul Auster

There's not enough coffee in the world to fuel all the books I want to write — Christopher Stocking

Being nice and competitive are two different things. — David Duffield

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. — Dave Eggers

Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens. — Robert Ahaness

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing ... The teenage slasher movies. — Casey Affleck

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know. — Chris Frantz

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn't enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that's not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end. — Philip Pullman

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. — Paul Feig

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition. — Ameen Rihani

Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet. — G.K. Chesterton