Janina Elkin Quotes & Sayings

Fiction
good fiction, anyway
is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great ...
... and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves.
THAT is why you write fiction. — Holly Lisle

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. — Ronald Reagan

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe. — Sergei Korolev

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. — Nicholson Baker

The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.' — Walter Russell

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength. — Claire Weekes

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be. — John McEnroe

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible, — Philip Jenkins