Mid Fall Classic Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York. — Lewis Black

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. — Steven Adler

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works. — Seth Godin

Dogs bark at what they don't understand. — Heraclitus

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B) enlarging my understanding of the central characters has to be sacrificed. I have huge folders of details - research - with a story like Netherlands. Only a very small part of it gets used. The old iceberg analogy again. — Jim Shepard

There were lots of kinds of men in the world. There were lots of kinds of dogs in the world. There were lots of men who acted like dogs in the world. — Claire Cook

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think. — Chris Brady

Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down — Ellen Raskin

Miss Sevier in high school told us the police think we have knives or guns in our pockets and that they have killed people who were just trying to get out their IDs. I think that is wrong, but I read where the court decided it was all right if the police were really scared. Yet if anybody else is really scared of the police it's not all right for the scared person to kill a policeman. — Elizabeth Moon

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church. — Sylvia Plath

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good. — Thomas Gilovich