Ana Brazil > Ana's Quotes

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.”
― Ted Hughes

“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
― Douglas Wood

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
― Alberto Moravia

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel