Quotes - Serena Yates (serenayates) (Wexford, Wexford, Ireland) Showing 1-30 of 34

#2

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
― James Mitchner

tags: writing-rewriting

72 likes

#3

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31557 likes

#4

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

tags: life

1997 likes

#5

“Are you just annoying by
nature, or did you take a seminar?”
― D.J. Manly

16 likes

#6

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor

7877 likes

#7

“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”
― Julian Bond

36 likes

#8

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78425 likes

#9

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9631 likes

#10

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

31380 likes

#11

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18148 likes

#12

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23464 likes

#13

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

3944 likes

#14

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

1536 likes

#15

“Me, i'm going to write ass-kicking trans* characters. I think I might end up writing not a single thing that is "pure" by some people's standards. Just because, and because I can.”
― Aleksandr Voinov

tags: just-because

27 likes

#16

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8634 likes

#17

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."

(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
― Gail Carriger

tags: addiction, book-lovers, books, survival

634 likes

#18

“The first and best victory is to conquer self”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

168 likes

#19

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

2597 likes

#20

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

7023 likes

#21

“Don't leave a message," his voicemail said. "If you do, I might call you back. We could end up communicating, and that would be awkward.”
― K.D. Sarge, Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells

tags: humor

16 likes

#22

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”
― Ernest Gaines

162 likes

#23

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

6592 likes

#24

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science

1293 likes

#25

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29741 likes

#26

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
― Harlan Ellison

818 likes

#27

“Don't worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that's who's good enough for you.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

6 likes

#28

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6892 likes

#29

“Seth swallowed and all sorts of cramps ran through his stomach. He’d call them ‘butterflies’, but with Dom they were moths at best. Just as lively, but uncomfortable in daylight, creatures of the night, like Seth’s lust for Dom.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1

tags: gay-romance, mafia

6 likes

#30

“You're going to drive me crazy, aren't you," Hank said.
"Crazy is an ambiguous term with no clinical meaning, and it's insulting to mental health patients. Can you be more specific?”
― Eli Easton, Unwrapping Hank

9 likes

#31

“Don't come in, Dad!" Hank said.
"Believe me, I won't," Karma said with a vocal shiver. "Just…I have, um, condoms and lube." And in a mutter, "Your mother made me.”
― Eli Easton, Unwrapping Hank

11 likes

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