Ibinder Quotes & Sayings

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. — Chinua Achebe

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. — Tim Cahill

I'm the only one for you, just me. You're my bad girl. No one else's. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. — Barbara De Angelis

It was embarrassing to be obliged to watch grief one cannot help. — Anne Perry

I probably shouldn't live in New York. — Steve Burns

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ... ," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that. — Marjane Satrapi

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master. — H. P. Blavatsky

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading. — Peg Kehret

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. — Bruce Feiler

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. — Stendhal

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. — William Makepeace Thackeray