Time Weve Spent Together Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are. — Augusten Burroughs

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general. — Joel Stein

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? — Jenny Weber

Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it's a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are. — Ian McEwan

The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything. — J.I. Packer

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat. — Elizabeth Gilbert