Writerly Angela Quotes & Sayings

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole. — Roger Waters

Audacity is an insolent form of boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. It implies a degree of impudence, but also fearlessness and intrepid daring. — Mike Cernovich

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean. — Valerie Bertinelli

Many ways to fly, but only one way to fall. — Kirsty Logan

The point is not to let the orthography distract the reader from the meaning. — Mary Norris

The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

My perfect guy right now would be a mannequin - one that comes alive only when I need him to! — Raven-Symone

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly

My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case. — Amy Winehouse

Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough. — M.L. Stephens

I'm not sure I would put it that way. When we get over something, we move on, we put it behind us. Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form. We have to learn to live with them and their deaths ...
I think of them every day, I wonder what they would say at a given moment. I ask them for advice, even today, at my age, when it will soon be time to be thinking of my own death ... — Jan-Philipp Sendker

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. — Michael Swanwick