Margret > Margret's Quotes

“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
― Aphra Behn

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“they give their hearts away”
― sarah addison allen, First Frost

“The apple tree in the background, just barely visible, was stretching a single limb out to her, as if wanting to be in the photo with her.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.”
― Donna VanLiere, Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again

“Death's power is limited --
It cannot eradicate memories
Or slay love
It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith
Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God
It cannot permeate the soul
And it cannot cripple the spirit
It merely separates us for a while
That is the only power death can claim
--No more”
― Donna VanLiere

“I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Note

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
― Greg Kincaid

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter