Zukauskas Nancy Quotes & Sayings

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn. — Daniel Handler

Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share. — Simone Elkeles

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

There is always something missing that torments me. — Camille Claudel

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less. — Joel Greenblatt

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. — Tony Abbott