Teel Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that. — Ray Bradbury

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit. — Jase Robertson

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity. — Jack Nicholson

Good things could happen to not so bad people. — Mike Gayle

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary. — Judy Teel

In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott — Austin Kleon

I was scared and nearly choking when I bravely asked, 'Are you a pros-ti-tute?' I actually said it like that. I knew I was asking a question that might get me beaten up, and I had to force the three syllables to stumble off my tongue and bounce around innocently on the stainless-steel draining board while I waited for her reply. — Eskay Teel

Big girls do cry. — Eskay Teel

Man's condition is never the same; he is humbled, then exalted; sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted; enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen. — Vincent De Paul

sure bet, the crowd hadn't packed the — J.D. Robb

Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem to have an inner music... — Leonard Ray Teel

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on! — Charles Dickens

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block) — Lisi Harrison

remember, just because you're writing fiction doesn't mean that you can ignore facts. It is those details that make fiction compelling and, in many cases, very real for the reader. — Roy A. Teel Jr.

The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a 'fun' idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me! — Eskay Teel

The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking to the reader.

My decision to do this was because I've often read autobiographies and wondered how the author felt and how it impacted them writing about painful memories that had been locked away in a deep forgotten place.
I wanted to know what was going in their 'present' life while they were writing; about the struggle with sharing their inner secrets and... I'm... inquisitive. (nosy)!

It took me over five years to finish 'Alice in Worcestershire' because sometimes, I was simply too drained to continue. Periodically, I updated the 'Diary' chapter and, thankfully, it's enthusiastically appreciated by readers. — Eskay Teel

Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective. — Nikki Turner

Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he has taken off his trousers, and that his nose protrudes altogether indecently and must at all cost be covered. It's sheer torment!
With one hand over his nose, the deacon knocks again and again. No one responds. And yet Martha is home; the gate is locked from within. And that means - what? It means that she is with someone else ... The deacon punctuates the scene inwardly with the three dots we have graphically depicted just above, and, tripping over them at every second step, he proceeds to Rosa Luxemburg Street. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal. — Tipu Sultan

The difference between nuts and eccentric is about a million dollars, I hear. — Judy Teel