Ritam Srca Quotes & Sayings

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. — Paul Auster

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. — Abraham Lincoln

banging saucepans to ring in the new year? — Colum McCann

Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken — Selena Gomez

For what secrets, what truths had those monstrous creatures of night to give us? What, of necessity, must be their terrible limits, if indeed we were to find them at all? What can the damned really say to the damned? — Anne Rice

There's a reason we eat popcorn during a movie. If I want to zone out, be brainless and entertained, then I watch TV, go to a movie. If I want a good story, then I read a book." "Ah — Penny Reid

Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. — Janet Fitch

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift — Dan Brown

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. — Edmund Pendleton

People think of suicide in this linear way, as if you get more and more depressed and go on to create a more specific plan, Ms. Barber said. In fact, suicide is often a convergence of factors leading to a sudden, tragic event. In one study of people who survived a suicide attempt, almost half reported that the whole process, from the first suicidal thought to the final act, took 10 minutes or less. — Anonymous

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds. — Ron Reagan

He had tried to smile, but it was broken. — Kim Harrison

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that. [ ... ] Sometimes when I'm interviewed, the interviewer either compliments me on my 'talent', my 'gift' or asks me how I discovered it. [ ... ] I used to struggle to answer this politely, to explain that I didn't believe much in writing talent. People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up. — Octavia E. Butler

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors. — John Hodgman