Susan > Susan's Quotes

“Proceed with caution, but don't be put off. After all, bristles aside, the porcupine is a harmless creature.”
― Susan Francis, Butterfly Porcupine

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“I planned that Aintree Tale #1 would have a halo while the soon to be published Aintree Tale #2 in comparison would have red horns and a fork tail.”
― Susan Francis

“It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.”
― Audrey Niffenegger

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years