Margolese Quotes & Sayings

Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs - and ultimately dead ends. They are responses to keep us locked in the role of victim. Empowerment is encapsulated in the written word. Writing about trauma is more than simply documenting experience - it's about illuminating life on earth. It's about transforming tragedy into art, and hoping that somehow that piece of art may help someone else who's gone through something unbearable and who doesn't yet see that there is truly a light at the end of the tunnel. . . . It's about transcendence. It's about where we go from here." Tracy Strauss — Rossandra White

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures. — Denise Duhamel

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. — Richard Roxburgh

None of you will survive the night — Scott Cawthon

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism. — Maria Shriver

I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they'd fallen from the sun.
Her laugh was like a bangle of bells.
"Your hair is wet," I told her one day, "Did you take a bath?"
"It is dew!" she laughed, "I've been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn. — Roman Payne

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head. — Robert Greene

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant. — Lillian Hellman

I always thought I wasn't afraid to die. No... No one is afraid of death itself. Your pain and suffering is over in an instant. What really makes me suffer... Is seeing you crying over me... From the darkness of the Milky Way.

I'm sorry... Please don't make that face. You look best when you're smiling, you know. — Inio Asano

I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow. — Louise Meriwether

To the beginning of the rest of our lives.

- Leo — Sherry Thomas

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes. — Euripides

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge. — Dinah Sheridan