Mogford Writing Quotes & Sayings

If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention. — Julian Barnes

They need me to be their sturdy unbending fortress.
So here I am. — Krista Ritchie

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. — Jane Taylor

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in life. When you gave purely, the honor in giving, and that was honor enough. — Scott O'Grady

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens. — Stephen Chbosky

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written! — Heather Robinson

A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go. — James S.A. Corey

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies? — J.K. Rowling

I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful. — Maya Angelou