Zanny Minton Quotes & Sayings

Two-thousand-word scenes/chapters are potato chip length. That is, if you are about to go to bed and you're reading a terrific novel and the scenes/chapters come in around two-thousand-word bites, you'll tell yourself that you'll read just one more chapter. But if the narrative is really moving after you finish one of these bites, you won't be able to help yourself reading another. If the Story is extremely well told, you'll just keep eating the potato chip scenes all through the night. — Shawn Coyne

If your dream only includes you, it's too small. — Ava DuVernay

We should make a list of who doesn't want to kill you, love. It'd be shorter. I'd be offended, but it was actually a good idea. — Maria V. Snyder

And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole. — Alexandra Kleeman

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm. — Gay Talese

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness. — Joshua Harris

For unlike many of our previous opponents, Russian troops tended to stand firm when under air attack. Rather than dive for cover, most would blaze away at us with whatever weapons they had to hand. And as infantry weapons did not use tracer bullets, we were often unaware of the volume of enemy fire that was being directed at us. It was only when we returned to base and saw the enormous number of bullet holes in our machines that we realized just how much lead we had been flying through. — Helmit Mahlke

A finger had to be cut, to save the hand. — Khaled Hosseini

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. — Robert Caro

I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world. — Aeriel Miranda

God's grace gives strength overcome any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you will have Jesus, He has you already. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Where is God? Where can I find him? we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean — Ted Dekker

Chaos is a friend of mine. — Bob Dylan

I am no philosopher, but I know this. Your religions cause wars and prevent marriages. There will be no peace on earth until every synagogue, every mosque, every church, and every temple is razed to the ground or made into a barn, and when that happens, no one will be happier than the Lord God Himself. — Louis De Bernieres