Sharon L. Sherman > Sharon L.'s Quotes

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller