Lasdun James Quotes & Sayings

People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others. One is always approaching the denouement of this or that subplot of one's life. And you, the stranger, entering the picture in all your blundering innocence, may well be the catalyst for some long-awaited climax. — James Lasdun

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great. — Dave Barry

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — Orison Swett Marden

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety. — James Lasdun

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers. — James Lasdun

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others. — Hans F. Sennholz

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy. — James Lasdun

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order. — Anthony Hecht

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. — C.S. Lewis

Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed. — N.D. Wilson

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it. — James Lasdun

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. — James Lasdun

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most. — Neale Donald Walsch

he lacked something very important: faith. He believed in the Almighty, sure. He even believed in the Holy Trinity. That was not the issue. The issue was that he couldn't control his ambitions. He had a very weak spirit and refused to give the control over to God. And because of that, he found himself involved in things that the church could never agree with. He constantly gave in to temptation. He was full of pride. He only thought of himself and how he benefited in every situation. Quite simply, he was a lost soul. — Robbie Cheuvront

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. — Nat King Cole

Failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important. — Amanda Lang

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end. — James Lasdun

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it. — Rich Mullins

In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was. — Imelda May

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun

What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact. — James Lasdun

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is. — Aleksandar Hemon

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically. — James Lasdun