Zoia Quotes & Sayings

Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us. — Tillie Olsen

I didn't thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am? — Monika Basile

A book might be written on the injustice of the just. — Pauline Kael

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. — Marge Piercy

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared. — Arundhati Roy

He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see what it was Zoia had decided to destroy. — Philip Sington

Rome wasn't built in a day, except in Lego Land — Josh Stern

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth — L.M. Montgomery

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole. — Martin Luther

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself. — C.E. Dimond

You're worth every bad thing that's ever happened to me, because going through them led me to you. — Samantha Young

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly? — Martial

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem. — Amity Shlaes

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land. — Israel Zangwill

Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick. — Karin Slaughter