S.P. Oldham > S.P.'s Quotes

“Write like the whole world's reading.”
― Lillian White

“A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere.”
― Lillian White

“…we must be careful not to do our enemies’ work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator – what logic is this?”
― Robert Harris, Dictator

“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Robert Harris, Dictator