Kalopsia Quotes & Sayings

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher. — David Axelrod

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener. — Jeff Kinney

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. — Charles Darwin

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler

Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own. — Lori Lansens

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up. — Monica

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books - not part of me, all of me - and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. — Jeanette Winterson