Vaile Quotes & Sayings

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice. The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention. — Jenny Offill

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done — Bryan Robson

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. — Dalai Lama

Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.

It's that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides. — Sandy Vaile

It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library. — Charlotte M. Vaile

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson

Backstory is like a flavour you can't quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it's there and it enhances the flavour, but it's intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly! — Sandy Vaile

I love you so much, Laurelyn. I swear I do. — Georgia Cates

Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book.

What you need is subtlety. — Sandy Vaile

Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story. — Sandy Vaile

Intuition is possible because the unknowable is there. Science denies the existence of the divine because it says, There is only one division: the known and the unknown. If there is any God, we will discover him through laboratory methods. If he exists, science will discover him. — Osho

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. — Henry Fielding

to be old...anonymous as the clouds — Helen Adam