Willbond Grantham Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoe Heller

Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically. — Pankaj Mishra

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore De Balzac

Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest. — Richard Baxter

You are not the car you drive. — Brad Pitt

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves. — John Wooden

I'll only be wearing a t-shirt," she said. "I love to let the tropical breeze ruffle my tail feathers. — Fred Barnett

I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy. — Pat Conroy

That life can be a rich place, comprised of the highbrow and the lowdown, the casual and the ambitious, private reading and public sharing. As a parent in that landscape, you'll need to be sometimes traveling companion, sometimes guides, sometimes off in your own part of the forest. A relationship between readers is complicated and cannot be reduced to such "strategies" as mandatory reading aloud, a commendable family activity whose pleasure has been codified into virtue, transforming the nightly bedtime story into a harbinger of everybody's favorite thing: homework. — Roger Sutton

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places. — Francis Arinze