Kennita Allen Quotes & Sayings

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my first novel was rather dark. And I don't know, but something about what she said was true. 'Yes, why don't I?' Maybe I was afraid to be funny in the writing. But since then, seven books later, almost everything I've done has a comedic edge to it. — Jonathan Ames

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson. — Jill Lepore

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Unless you grasp that it requires all the strength of spirit to die, that the hero always dies before his death, you will not come particularly far in your observations on life. — Soren Kierkegaard

Don't follow your heart if you can't keep a beat — Neil Leckman

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. — Orson Scott Card

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. — Idries Shah

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously. — Kevin Hart

Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison. — G. Frank Lawlis

Branch by branch - we are the fruits of the same tree; so we should indulge in appreciation for each other. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann