Hesitates Or Refuses Quotes & Sayings

Do all the women in the world secretly know each other?" Sim asked. "Because that would explain a lot. — Patrick Rothfuss

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary. — Sonia Johnson

But I suspect the reported number of good novels this year is a result of 9/11 and all the other alarums of recent years. I think it set a certain gear into movement, unseen, silent, at the heart of many writers. Writers with children, writers with that hope of a peaceful century; a sort of literary battle stations. I was not surprised to hear Ali Smith describe her wonderful book The Accidental as a war book.
Sebastian Barry, in interview with TMO (2005) — Sebastian Barry

I want to be master of my own fuck-ups. — Deborah Levy

I've got an age that I do think of myself. — Clive Owen