Hedgebrook Writing Quotes & Sayings

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many. — Doris Duke

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett

The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm. — Dana Stabenow

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. — John Cleese

God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child's smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying. — N.D. Wilson

Monkey see, monkey do. Human being don't see, human being don't do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work. — Larry McMurtry

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment. — Ayi Kwei Armah

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low. — Pam Dawber