Team Roper Quotes & Sayings

Now try writing some pages to serve as later notes. Because you're not yet sure of voice or anything else, you're free from the need to squash in all manner of background information, explaining what year it is, etc. That stuff will just get you back in your head and drive you nuts. You're free to write as if all that stuff is in the reader's head already. It will be, by the time you get to this part of the book. You — Mary Karr

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.' — Neil Peart

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling. — Adam Green

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. — Harriet Tubman

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets. — Maxine Hong Kingston

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax. — Larry King

I enjoy people even when they're being difficult. — Greg Walloch

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. — Augusto Pinochet