Bron > Bron's Quotes

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
― Jackie French, author

“Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!”
― Jackie French, Lady Dance

“Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?”
― Jackie French, The Girl from Snowy River

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“I burned too bright. I saw too much.”
― Marianne de Pierres, Burn Bright

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”
― Brian Helgeland, A Knight's Tale: The Shooting Script

“Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.”
― Katrina Monroe

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
― Stephen King

“A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commision, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction