Tony Riches > Tony's Quotes

“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”
― Diane Sawyer

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
― André Gide

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
― Jim Rohn

“I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.”
― Anna Bayes, Under His Wings

“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
― Richard Branson

“Good stories deserve a little embellishment.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
― Amelia Earhart

“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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

“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
― Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“If you're going to write histories, Tarly, you have to do the research, Archmaester Ebrose, Game of Thrones S7”
― George RR Martin

“Raise your words, not your voice, it's rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Jalal al-Din Rumi

“History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”
― Anne Boleyn

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights