Siong Hua Quotes & Sayings

If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease. — Scott Turow

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets ... when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through. — Charles Bukowski

Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him. — Hilari Bell

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned
with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to
the sun. — Patricia Briggs

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is. — Dwight L. Moody

In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times, designed to make each other miserable."
Don't believe it. We aren't designed to make each other miserable. This view holds evolution responsible for the mismatch between our evolved predispositions and the post-agricultural socioeconomic world we find ourselves in. The assertion that human beings are naturally monogamous is not just a lie; it's a lie most Western societies insist we keep telling each other. — Cacilda Jetha

What we do is bring them out in the open, show people what we once were, what we still can be. — Elbert Or

I wish I didn't want the exotic man who knows the entire history of jazz, and instead wanted the teacher, who has his flaws but whose kindness is as rare as genius. — Merritt Tierce