Cathy > Cathy's Quotes

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.”
― Wendy Percival, The Indelible Stain