Ruckles Pier Quotes & Sayings

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. — Donna Tartt

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. — Stephen Lewis

There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so. — Flannery O'Connor

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships. — Jim George

Boring! I'm laughing on the outside, but snoring on the inside. — Jay Lee

You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up. — Ted Alexandro

I'm in love with you, Rosemary Rose. Madly and irrevocably in love. What do you propose to do about it? — Fay Chandos

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated. — Alex Borstein

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck. — Diana Lopez

By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of death, this is the how-to book to read. It's filled with thoughtful, nuanced advice from a teacher/writer who actually writes, and writes beautifully and with great humor. The list of rejected stories is worth the price of the whole book. — Nora Gallagher