T.E. Shepherd > T.E.'s Quotes

“There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten.”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin”
― Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.”
― John Harwood, The Ghost Writer

“You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness

“I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness

“The richer you are, I've worked out, the smaller your telephone and the bigger your telephoto lens.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness

“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple”
― E.F. Schumacher

“Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Enchanted Glass

“Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret

“James T Kirk: Mr.Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Montgomery Scott: Certainly, Sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?”
― Harve Bennett, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

“It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?”
― Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

“Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.”
― Richard Linklater

“Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.”
― Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.”
― Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water

“I had a much better fantasy life, than a real life.”
― Michael McIntyre

“There's atoms, which is things that is too small to see, that's what we're all made of. And there's things that are smaller than atoms, and that's Particle Physics."

Bod nodded and decided that Scarlett's father was probably interested in imaginary things.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“‎'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.”
― Alan Garner, Boneland

“I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.”
― Alan Garner, Boneland

“I was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty much a waste of time.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.”
― Meg Rosoff

“Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.”
― David Almond, My Name Is Mina

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
― William Trevor