Lakome2 Quotes & Sayings

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader
doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning — Karen Marie Moning

Griff held his breath while Dante's hand slid against the side of his soft bulge. He tried to remember that they were just two friends joking around on the corner in Brooklyn.( ... ) "Yeah. I coulda ... you don't have to play undersea treasure hunt in my damn pants."
"Gotta watch out for that electric eel." Dante closed his hand over the ring and winked and pulled his fist out. — Damon Suede

But Jamie was moaning around his cock, that shameless look of pure bliss on his face, and Ryan wanted to fuck his mouth again. So he did. — Alessandra Hazard

because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." HEBREWS 13:5 NIV — Dave Ramsey

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action. — Oswald Chambers

Entertain the people. Give them something they're not ready for, make them talk. — Robin Thicke

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative. — Stevie Wonder

Now our poor Gib never had a sense of humor to lose ... — Sharon Kay Penman

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. — Geraldine Brooks

She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?"
"Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask. — Carrie Jones

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral. — Tariq Ramadan

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere. — Victoria Strauss

PIerre tried to work up a stormy heart of romantic loss about breaking up with Rebecca. It gave him license to drink and brood with hard eyes, which he found interesting. — Tom Drury

There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. — Theresa May

What one person takes away from a book might be very different from what the next person takes away
almost as if the story is altered depending on who's reading, where, and when. But then, maybe all books are like that
a little different each time they are opened. The real question is who's doing the changing: the story, or the reader. — Jodi Picoult