Nlight Quotes & Sayings

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. — Colm Toibin

You start slow. You find the subject's limits and get him to spend some time there. He gets used to it. Before long, the limits have moved. You never take him more than a centimeter beyond. You make it feel it's his choice. — Barry Eisler

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb. — Francis Quarles

So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision. — Toni Sorenson

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? — Bharati Mukherjee

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear. — Mason Cooley

I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them. — Claudia Black

Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities' uniform. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. — Nicholas Mosley

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. — Carl Jung

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them. — Paulo Coelho

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. — James Joyce

I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is rotated in and out. I am very use to dealing with people's methods. And perspectives. — Melissa Rosenberg

If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand. — Maureen Howard