Peccarelli Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy. — Nathaniel Rateliff

Remember the first time your dad tried to teach you to drive on ice? How when the car started to slide you had to turn into the side while every nerve in your body said to turn the other way? I think life is like that a lot, way more than we know. And I think love is particularly like that. We think we're supposed to fight for it when we're really supposed to let go; you know, turn into it. — Chris Crutcher

Write, write, write — Shaun Herbert

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations. — Richard E. Byrd

While it's romantic fiction and bares all of its hallmarks, I ultimately want all women to see a part of themselves in Lia. We all dream of a knight galloping in on a white horse, and my book will compel readers to weight up how much of life is fate, and how much of our destiny we create for ourselves. — Timea Tokes

I could have argued that her wanting to do something for me meant she was ultimately acting in her own interests, but it might provoke more of the 'don't fuck with me' behaviour. — Graeme Simsion

When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word. — F. F. Bosworth

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. — Chinua Achebe

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles ... Contemporary or postmodernist art ... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past. — Fredric Jameson

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. — Norman Rockwell

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking. — Geraldine McCaughrean