Sandina Nelson Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do. — J. Michael Straczynski

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. — Andrew Mayne

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons. — Gore Vidal

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. — Confucius

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. — Rene Redzepi

The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has been challenging through constant battle since the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference. — Karen Hawkins

The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in. — Peter Turchi