Proscriptive Quotes & Sayings

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville

But "Bloody Sunday" was only the beginning of a year of terror. Three weeks later, in February, Grand Duke Serge, the Tsar's uncle and Ella's husband, was assassinated in Moscow. The Grand Duke, who took a harsh pride in knowing how bitterly he was hated by revolutionaries, had just said goodbye to his wife in their Kremlin apartment and was driving through one of the gates when a bomb exploded on top of him. Hearing the shuddering blast, Ella cried, "It's Serge," and rushed to him. What she found was not her husband, but a hundred unrecognizable pieces of flesh, bleeding into the snow. — Robert K. Massie

Remember a person with Autism isn't a set of symptoms or statistics always remember and remind them that they're a person first. — Paul Isaacs

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. — Naomi Wolf

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great. — Jonathan Shapiro

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end? — Alexander Cairncross

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see. — Guy Finley

As a producer, you're there from the inception of the concept to the delivery of it. It just takes so much energy. — Susan Downey

She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light. — Shannon Hale

I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. — Ruth Rendell

The secret of good magic is another magic. — Amit Kalantri

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. — Hannah More

The experiences of life teach truth. — Harold Klemp

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened. — Eric Stonestreet

Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free. — Cory Doctorow