Lakeside Living Quotes & Sayings

Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You disrupted my entire world, Even Tate. I'm used to being the one in control. The one people fall in love with. I'm not supposed to fall in love. — Leisa Rayven

The grease from the awful lunch buffet took to the air, becoming more a skin coating than a smell. — Harlan Coben

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is. — Jessa Crispin

In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves. — William Stolzenburg

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly. — Ken Robinson

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings. — Letitia Baldrige

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. — Tracy K. Smith

Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth. — Philippa Gregory

The dream is so pleasant: to extend a limited sub-portion of yourself into a simulated world and pretend for a while that you are blissfully less. Less than an omniscient being. — David Brin

The bliss of blessedness! — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you nurture Nature, Nature nurtures you. — Donald L. Hicks