Beatrice Gormley > Beatrice's Quotes

“Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.”
― Calvin Trillin

“We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours.”
― Paul Elie

“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

“If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“To the new president, Abraham Lincoln: Sir, if on attaining the presidency you are as happy as I am upon leaving it, then, sir, you are a happy man indeed.”
― James Buchanan

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt