Sauppee Quotes & Sayings

She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out. — H.D.

DeBlass's eyes darted left and right. His breathing grew hard and fast.
"My client does not acknowledge ownership of the weapon in question."
"Your client's scum."
The lawyer puffed up. "Lieutenant Dallas, you're speaking of a United States Senator."
"That makes him elected scum. — J.D. Robb

Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace. — Doreen Virtue

It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your being there. You can spend all day jerking off as long as you describe it well. — Richard Hell

The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime. — Dani Shapiro

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain. — Anne Rivers Siddons

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality — Ivan Pavlov

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. — William Warburton

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. — Ralph Marston

..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing. — Elizabeth Yates