Outskirts Publishing Quotes & Sayings

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anna Quindlen

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors. — Willie Nelson

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession. — Halle Berry

Everyday, in our quest to grab the new, the trendy, the coolest stuff, we forget to use the old and our daily lives become stuck in the vicious cycle, chasing after stuff without working the old. Today, pause, slow down, take time, revisit those lessons, materials and take the necessary baby-steps. It pays. Go, make it happen! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted. — Frank R. Wolf

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator. — Samuel Johnson

He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. All His corrections are sent in love, to purify thee, and to draw thee nearer to Himself. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations. — Joyce Cary

Faith that doesn't affect your life isn't really faith. — Trip Lee

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. — William Feather

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction. — Victoria Clayton

When I was a kid, I wrote to the BBC, and the producers sent me a huge package through the post with 'Doctor Who' scripts. I'd never even seen a script and couldn't believe that they actually wrote this stuff down. It sort of opened a door. — Peter Capaldi

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists? — Alfred Kazin

If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compulsion to express it. He found himself wondering, therefore, from time to time, if he might have enjoyed his crime in some way, derived some primal satisfaction from it - how else could one really explain in mankind the continued toleration of wars, the perennial enthusiasm for wars when they came, if not for some primal pleasure in killing? - and because the capacity to wonder came so often, he accepted it as true that he had. — Patricia Highsmith

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years. — Sophocles