G.X. Todd > G.X.'s Quotes

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“Darling, whose book is this to be?"

"Ostensibly yours, my sweet"

"I see -- rather like my life since I met you?"

"Yes darling”
― John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
― Carson McCullers

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
― Maya Angelou

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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

“And what did being women have to do with it? She was better than any male player in America. She remembered the Life interviewer and the questions about her being a woman in a man's world. To hell with her; it wouldn't be a man's world when she finished with it.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Abernathy turned on him as if he’d said something inciting. ‘Reading it won’t change a damn thing.’
‘It won’t,’ he agreed. ‘But you’ll be going where he went, looking where he looked, smiling when he smiled. You’ll be in all the same places.’
She fell silent after that, and Pilgrim did, too. The book remained untouched on the floor.”
― G.X. Todd, Survivors