Naccios Quotes & Sayings

Writing is a communication. — Theodore Sturgeon

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go. — Lana Del Rey

With living creatures / one must begin very early / to dwarf their growth : / the bound feet, / the crippled brain, / the hair curlers, / the hands you / love to touch. — Marge Piercy

This book is for those who would rather be haunted and driven mad than left behind. — Megan Hart

We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff. — Shane West

Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep. — Karl Ove Knausgard

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time. — Demi Lovato

Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself. — Louise Erdrich

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best. — Craig Ferguson

When you people finally give up and go home, you can leave us the Budweiser breweries, he said. — Neil Gaiman

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal
not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading
that's just literary lust. — Tanith Lee

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she's just a mother.' And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I'd always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, 'Well, I'm going to raise my family and that's going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that's my choice.' Doesn't mean that that's all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield. — J.K. Rowling

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. — Douglas Coupland

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better. — Gregory Maguire