Pesymista A Optymista Quotes & Sayings

I'd heard someone say that bravery was doing the thing you were afraid to do, despite your fear. If that was true I was the bravest person I knew — Chloe Neill

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary. — Jessica Brown Findlay

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell

Why readers should support indie authors
9/9/2015

Guest post on Maggie James Blog by Samuel Marquis

Readers should support authors of any stripe for only one reason: great writing


"So why should readers support indie and traditional legacy authors? For only one reason: good solid writing. Craftsmanship. Actual hard work, sacrifice, and talent coming together into an amalgam of significance. — Samuel Marquis

It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see possibilities. — Aimee Carter

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you. — Nikki Giovanni

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy. — Roseanne Barr

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it. — Jeremy Irvine

Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die. — Henry Chesbrough

Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead. — Jim Butcher

...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time - the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress. The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into a private or collective mythology, to revisit time like space, refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time that plagues the human condition. — Svetlana Boym

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching. — P.T. Barnum