Lustbader Books Quotes & Sayings

Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens. — Hannah Hoch

Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice. — Veronica Roth

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. — Bob Dylan

Life is very Beautiful! — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well. — Jennifer Granholm

A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connected to institutions and clients that served the community. — Jerry Pinkney

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them. — Eric Van Lustbader

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed. — Louis Menand

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. — Charles D. Broad

Carl envisioned a show that would be timeless. He wanted it to be fresh to audiences fifty years down the line. — Dick Van Dyke

With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.' — Joe Carnahan

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire. — Don Altman

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. — Sydney J. Harris