Jack Zenger Quotes & Sayings

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious. — Lynda Williams

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope. — Jenny Diski

Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema — K.D. Harp

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea. — Laurence Olivier

We live in a society that doesn't offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren't clearly articulated and aligned for a goal. A writer gets past this. It's going to be a mess before you're finished, and you may not have a name for the mess or understand its utilitarian purposes. There aren't words for everything. For now, we'll call it the draft of a story. — Ron Carlson

The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world. — Frederick Lenz

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

The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind. — Debasish Mridha