Overworld Chronicles Quotes & Sayings

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It's the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my writing to a deeper level, I've found that a better practice is to simply write what frightens you, haunts you, even. I now keep a sign on the bulletin board in my office that reads: 'Write What Scares You.' I've learned that tapping into the hard stuff - whether it's the fear of loss or a boogeyman lurking in childhood memories - is what ultimately gives a story the power to leap off the page and grab you by the collar. — Sarah Jio

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. — Nicholas Mosley

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price. — Rick Perlstein

The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out. — Clara E. Laughlin

I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring! — Sara Sheridan

I'm afraid most Bibles remain unopened and unread. Don't let this be true of yours! — Billy Graham

I looked at her like I'd just seen a miniature Elvis break-dancing on her head. — John Corwin

There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is ... what you get other people to believe. — Tommy Smothers