Pachler Karin Quotes & Sayings

It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them. — L. Frank Baum

There are things about me you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand, things you shouldn't understand. — Paul Reubens

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage. — Julia Ward Howe

The delight of the spirit leads to life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know you pretty well."
"Better than anyone I think."
I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought. — Kenneth Oppel

Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than could keening Greek chorus, or a moaning witch doctor. — Jonathan Lethem

Money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age. — Caitlin Thomas

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear. — Tennessee Williams

Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes it up. And the job, my job, as a dramatist, was not to write accurately, but to write persuasively. If and when I do my job well, subsequent cowboys, as it were, will talk like me. — David Mamet