Category: writer
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It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
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It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I don’t do research. I never have.
Ray Bradbury
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling
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We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
Marianne Williamson
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
George Eliot
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson