K.M. > K.M.'s Quotes

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”
― Louis L'Amour

“Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it’s gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn’t come to you, you have to go find it.”
― Alice Hoffman, Green Witch

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

“I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.”
― K.M. Randall

“Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.”
― Shari J. Ryan, When Fully Fused

“Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three."

"If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.”
― K.M. Randall, Fractured Dream

“Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.”
― K.M. Randall, Fractured Dream

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“I should write a serious book on China. If I did that and put in a lot of subtext about love and maybe compared it to the Great Wall or communism or something I could show the parallels between how we are forced to act in society due to cultural mores, versus how we really are, like, behind our own personal Jungian Great Walls. Then people would take my writing seriously like they do with Marni and Tess and that guy who wrote the Great Gatsby.”
― Jesse James Freeman

“His memory is perfectly clear

and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before

(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).

Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.”
― Michael Palmer, Thread