Viva La Causa Quotes & Sayings

Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can. — Patrick Ness

Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body. — David A. Bednar

I don't care how people read. I care that they read. — John Green

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me. — Sara Bareilles

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized. — Frank Chodorov

A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like ... a version of pastoral. — Philip Larkin

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. — John Maeda

If you're having fun, if you're working with people you love working with, then the results are always going to be exciting. — Jamie Hewlett

There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love but it cannot succeed by itself. To love means the words of the marriage service. For better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. That is what you take on if you love and wish to marry. — Agatha Christie

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage! — Murray Leinster

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve

Talk in terms of the other person's interests. — Dale Carnegie

Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts." — Michael R. Burch