Schappell Quotes & Sayings

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. — Elissa Schappell

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars. — Elissa Schappell

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it. — Elissa Schappell

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits. — Elissa Schappell

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian. — Martin Jacques

The only thing we have in life is time". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find. — Elissa Schappell

A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound. — Elissa Schappell

I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home. — Elissa Schappell

Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction ... it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice. — Elissa Schappell

If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal. — Sharon Gannon

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl. — Elissa Schappell

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it. — Elissa Schappell

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell

Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness. — Frederick Lenz

Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the name of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise and, just beneath, with gladness that he was dead. — John Steinbeck