William > William's Quotes

“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”
― William Shatner

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“We'll always face hardships, that's just how things are, but you have to pick yourself up no matter how hard the fall.”
― J.E. Reed, Running With the Wolves

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

“I should have been more frightened; that came later.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

“Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day... fifty the day after that... and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it's—GASP!!—too late.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“What in tarnation is a cell phone and service? I have a house phone right there in front of you. Those aren't mountain's dear, those are hills, you want mountains got to go further than this." Amber replied in her deepest country voice.”
― Amber M. Kestner, She's My Kind Of Country

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .”
― Tiffany King, Meant to Be

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The girl you killed? How do you know she wasn't more messed up than you? Or that boy? I know it sounds stupid, but you can't know! You can't judge them! No one has the right to decide who gets to live or die. Not even you.”
― Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost