Pommeline Quotes & Sayings

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. — Irwin Shaw

What sucks even more is getting hung up on the "what is he thinking and feeling?" shit. Does he miss me as much as I miss him? No. If he did, you'd know it by his actions. Is he seeing someone else? Maybe. Probably. Or at least he's planning on it. Again-it sucks, but if you get real about it you'll realize that knowing the answers to these questions still doesn't change the fact that your relationship didn't make the cut. — Greg Behrendt

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions. — Ron Jaworski

Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of your mind and put it up there on the screen. — Stephen King

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income - not because He needs it but because we need to give it. — James C. Dobson

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story — Richard Yates

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them. — Sergei Lukyanenko

From then on the improvement was dramatic, though still the conversations with the dead friend continued, until one morning he awoke crying, and realized he was crying, not only for his own loss but also for his friend's, for the unloved years. — Pat Barker

He simply went from vertical to horizontal in one marvelous geometric sweep. — Terry Pratchett

Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this. — Richard Karn

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison

I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline. — Donald S. Whitney

Television is a real woman's medium ... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes. — Patricia Richardson

Bella? a different voice called from the distance.
No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice. — Stephenie Meyer

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought. — Alice Childress