Caroline Lawrence > Caroline's Quotes

“I’ve never written for kids… I’m just trying to tap into the kid in myself & just go with my taste.”
― Andrew Stanton

“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
― George Orwell

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“People nowadays…they have no idea how good they have it. The past was unrelenting misery for most people. And the further back in time you go, the worse it was.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary