Rajatarangini Writer Quotes & Sayings

It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard. — Haruki Murakami

Something settled inside me then, a deep serenity, the kind I thought I would get from rehab, but didn't. It wasn't S ... He was part of the picture, but I knew better than to expect someone to fill my empty spaces. I thought it might have been the act of standing in one place long enough to look around. I was taking stock in St. Nacho's, making a new list of what I didn't want and, maybe more importantly, what I did — Z.A. Maxfield

Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were eradicated by giant explosions. My goals haven't changed, because my goal has always been to save the world! — Annalee Newitz

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. — Clint Eastwood

He who is resolute conquers grief. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved. — Jean Kerr

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words. — Goswami Kriyananda

He felt some visceral connection between what was happening on the screen and his own dreams and subconscious, and with his ongoing efforts to figure out the world in which he lived. And — Anne Rice

Being in an M.F.A. is like living in a sci-fi biosphere on an alien planet, where everyone shares your obscure visionary notions: namely, that literature matters, that English professors know more than other people, that typing, alone, in a library, is what everyone should be doing on a Friday night. Better to tell strangers that speaking Klingon is what turns you on. — Adam Johnson

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that? — A. Manette Ansay

July disappeared wherever used months go. Then half of August. Soon summer would be over. — Richard Bachman

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be. — Phil McGraw

Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace. — Henry Petroski

Don't you ever just have those days where even if you don't really like someone, you might as well hang out with them because right then, it's better than being alone? — Brenna Yovanoff

Everything you do and every word you say can become a ministering seed. You can be a blessing to everyone with whom you come in contact. — Kenneth Copeland