Theocritus Idyll Quotes & Sayings

Now let's say you've finished your first draft. Congratulations! Good job! Have a glass of champagne, send out for pizza, do whatever it is you do when you've got something to celebrate. If you have someone who has been impatiently waiting to read your novel-a spouse, let's say, someone who has perhaps been working nine to five and helping to pay the bills while you chase your dream-then this is the time to give up the goods ... if, that is, your first reader or readers will promise not to talk to you about the book until you are ready to talk to them about it. — Stephen King

Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I hadn't expected was for the backstory to make so much sense. Usually science is the first causality of superhero stories, tossed aside with the breezy rationalization: 'Hey, it's comics!' Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the Story is the better for it. — Mike W. Barr

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle. — Henry Ward Beecher

A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops — Italo Calvino

If I have a soul, it's yours. — Sylvain Reynard

We stared at each other for a minute. — Stephenie Meyer

The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony. — George Herbert

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me. — Miriam Toews

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.' — Joe Bob Briggs

Prejudice is opinion without judgement. — Voltaire

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell

Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.
"Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles. — J.K. Rowling