Oltman Middle School Quotes & Sayings

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — William Samuel Johnson

While still in Beijing Gao wrote a brief postscript for his seventeen-story collection in which he warns readers that his fiction does not set out to tell a story. There is no plot, as is found in most fiction, and anything of interest to be found in it is inherent in the language itself. More explicit is his proposal that the art of fiction is "the actualisation of language and not the imitation of reality in writing", and that its power to fascinate lies in the fact that, simply by using language, it is able to evoke genuine feeling. — Mabel Lee

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. — Fred Saberhagen

I disliked guns, but I learned to use them. I had come to understand guns, that they were tools and that they were no more evil, in their essence, than pliers and wrenches. At times, they were a necessity. In a world of evil, they were often also a blessing. Now and then, as I've said, I was able to — Dean Koontz

Honey, if we could cure stupid, I'd be out of a job. — Pamela Clare