Nakties Klajunai Quotes & Sayings

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust. — Jane Austen

Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity. — John C. Maxwell

Inequality is on the rise. — William Finnegan

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time. — Anne Lamott

She had always been ... the motive power of her own happiness. — Ayn Rand

There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you. — John Le Carre

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying. — Jon Turteltaub

This notebook might be all I have left of her. My hand is still hovering over the cover, tempting me to open it and find her again, even if it's only for a short while, even if it's only on paper. But part of me is terrified. This might not end well. This might not be anything I want to see. And so help me, if this turns out to be some kind of diary concerning her thoughts and feelings about Kent, I might just throw myself out the window. — Tahereh Mafi

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. — P.D. James