Steiglitzs Quotes & Sayings

Fiction
good fiction, anyway
is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great ...
... and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves.
THAT is why you write fiction. — Holly Lisle

Fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. — Adalbert De Vogue

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. — Ronald Reagan

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions. — Jerry Spinelli

I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love. Sometimes it seems as if they grudge the longevity which postpones their chance of an effective scene. — W. Somerset Maugham

First things, first frame the right questions before answering them, ensure doing the right things before doing things right. — Pearl Zhu

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already. — Marianne Faithfull

Everyone has to have a spirituality and everyone does have one, either a life-giving one or a destructive one. — Ronald Rolheiser

Apparently, it can be easy to forget that other people have minds with the same general capacities and experiences as your own. Once seen as lacking the ability to reason, to choose freely, or to feel, a person is considered something less than human. — Nicholas Epley

Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl. — Stephanie Rowe

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em. — Roger Stone

Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long ... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle. — Rhea Perlman