Lankove Quotes & Sayings

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves. — Michael Ian Black

Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all. — Jill Mansell

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience. — Elisabeth Rohm

Just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet. — Douglas Adams

Legal declaration by God through Jesus Christ! — John Paul Warren

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature. — Elif Batuman

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. — Ovid

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind — Philip K. Dick

Islington smiled superciliously. "Lucifer?" It said. "Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all." The marquis grinned. "And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful of candles? — Neil Gaiman

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer. — Chad Harbach

People in fact talk most often for their own sake, and with a need to hear the echo of their words. — Mesa Selimovic

You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins. — Rob Bell

Thats how you look at someone you're saying goodbye to forever. Someone you have to say goodbye to. I couldn't understand what was happening here. I couldn't understand what I'd done. — Nicolas Barreau

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth. — Barry Diller

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose. — Simone Weil