Lifeboats Survival Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts

As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me. — Denise Duhamel

The desperate resilience,the annoyed flamboyance;his personable passivity and his phobic aggressiveness; all trapped in the clever wrinkles of his fingers, the hard unsociable cast of his knuckles, the safe hopelessness of the pads. — Brandon Shire

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity. — Mark Twain

And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association. — Wendelin Van Draanen

To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it. — Joe Cocker

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth. — George W. Crane

We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost. — Frances Beinecke

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. — Paul Bowles