Random Inspirational Quotes

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."

"For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure."

"Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God."

"Publisher's Persuasion "You're much too good a writer to want a six figure advance. You don't want your readers to think you're only writing for money ~ do you?"

"Life becomes empty if we fill it with worthless thoughts and deeds."

"Pactum serva"- "Keep the faith"

"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."

"The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him."

"When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything."

"Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak."

"Wasifu wa viongozi wa Kolonia Santita ni siri kwa sababu siri ni siri ya mafanikio."

"With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying."

"I know how you feel,"I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has."

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."

"A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love."

"Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love."

"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."

"There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing."

"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"