Wildfox Summer Quotes & Sayings

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. — Penelope Lively

In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs. — Azai Nagamasa

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves. — David Lloyd George

Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?'
'Don't look shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?'
'Lately, only those whom I could not save', said Snape. — J.K. Rowling

I had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with theirs and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought ... it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies. — Diana Gabaldon

Anyway ... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it. — Ken MacLeod

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren