Niihwa Quotes & Sayings

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful. — Louise Penny

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. — Erin Morgenstern

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all. — Matt Tong

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko — Haruki Murakami

That's why I think it hurt us, whereas these other bands [I'm assuming he means the other Big 3 -Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica] they kept doing their thing, just METAL. METAL. METAL. METAL. We didn't do that, we took a little but of a turn. — Charlie Benante

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself. — William J. Clinton

Even though I was in pain, I remembered the golden rule: if you live in a hostel, never throw away food. — Chetan Bhagat

Ryke shoots me a dirty (the non-sexual kind of dirty) look. "Please tell me that wasn't your high school fucking motto." This is protective Ryke coming forth. (The non-sexual kind of coming.) — Krista Ritchie

It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to be able to hang out in those places and go to those bookstores and those comic book stores and those music stores, and like have that, from the books onto the screen, is so cool and I'm glad to have been part of that. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life. — Nicole Krauss

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. — Rita Mae Brown

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is. — Ruth Park

The misfortune we sometimes view as punishment is really just the natural result of our poor judgment; but it is easier for us to claim mistreatment than to admit to poor judgment. — Debbie Gilliland