Mcribs 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to describe what things sound like. 'As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back and forth.' Cadence, onomatopoeia, the poetry of language are all so important. Learn all that you can about how to bring sound into your work. — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure time. Time is confusing to me. That's why I do a lot of manipulations of time in my books, in part because an orderly time is physically difficult for me to conceive of in my brain. — Lucy Corin

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? — Charles L. Allen

The prosperity of a person is directly proportional to the level of his giving. — Sunday Adelaja

If there is another life he will find her there. — Jeanette Winterson

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I like people who are being normal and being themselves. — Callan McAuliffe

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. — George Eliot

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories. — Barbara Trapido

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then. — Ann Packer

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing ... and adding to. — Walt Disney

I don't try and be competitive with auditions. When I go on one, I kind of just forget about it. — Charlie Tahan

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma. — T.D. Jakes