Lottery By Shirley Jackson Summary Quotes & Sayings
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Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know - mainly because I learned it from books - that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth — Karen Swallow Prior

Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set. — Lois Duncan

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring — J. W. N. Sullivan

If you lost your way, just ask somebody. If you lost your dream, just close your eyes again. And some day you will blossom, with your hands wide spread to the sun. — Miyavi

You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense. — Eric Gagne

Presently I somehow found myself singing. The words were mere nonsense- irresponsible babble ... Humanity would have rejected it with scorn. Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognized and accepted it without a flicker of dissent. — Kenneth Grahame

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can ... Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason. — David Guterson

The first rule to having something is taking care of what you have. — Dortha Jackson

The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story. — Pat Conroy