Liz Alexander > Liz's Quotes

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison

“If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.”
― Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

“Before there were books, we read each other.”
― Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”
― Lisa Cron

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

“I now embraced a truth from which I determined never to waver: That from this moment on I would care less about when or how my life ends than how I feel about myself when it does.”
― E.S. Alexander, Lies that Blind: A Novel of Late 18th Century Penang

“When I looked into her eyes I recognised what I had never fully understood before, something that could no longer be disguised: The desire that each of us harbours, even if seemingly sunk like a Spanish galleon on the ocean floor, to love and be loved.”
― E.S. Alexander, Lies that Blind: A Novel of Late 18th Century Penang