Woolrichs Quotes & Sayings

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable. — J.A. Konrath

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly. — Sarah Dessen

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted. — Ameen Rihani

A dense pall of fear hung over the entire group. Previously they had sensed that persecution might come. They had tried to prepare for it. Now it was real - raw and terrifying. If their enemies could do this to a man like Stephen, who sought only to serve his community and anyone in need, every one of them was in danger. All of them! Little groups huddled in whispered conversation. Mothers stayed home from evening prayer to shelter children. Men moved furtively, casting glances to each side as they hastened through the streets. The whole community was wrapped in a shroud of tension and uneasiness. — Janette Oke

I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything. — Margaret Mead

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing. — Robert B. Parker

Uncertainty is a tender state, and there is infinite beauty inside that tenderness. But like all tender things, it is fragile. A question mark can be steamrolled into something flat, unless someone is willing to say that sometimes the mystery is enough, and that, until we can do better, we should let it be what it is. — L. E. Henderson

If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting. — Chris DeWolfe

Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone — Suzy Kassem

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. — Ben Shahn

Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street ... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks. — Wassily Kandinsky

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it. — Edward Thomas