Favourite Quotes and Quotations

**J.T. Adams** · March 18th, 2012

"Liars sit in chairs, you know. Truth tellers just sort of hunker down."

Randall Flagg

**randallFlaggfan1** · March 19th, 2012

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”

-Philip Roth

**blunthead** · March 19th, 2012

When I am asked for the 'secret of my success' (an absurd idea, that, but impossible to get away from), I sometimes say there are two: I stayed physically healthy (at least until a van knocked me down by the side of the road in 1999), and I stayed married. It's a good answer because it makes the question go away, and because there is an element of truth in it. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self-reliant woman who takes zero sh!t from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

**Haunted** · March 19th, 2012

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure,
just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
~ Aristotle

**J.T. Adams** · March 20th, 2012

"Give the devil an inch, and he'll become a ruler."

- Unknown

**blunthead** · March 20th, 2012

...let me reiterate that it's all on the table, all up for grabs. Isn't that an intoxicating thought? I think it is. Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch once said, "Murder your darlings," and he was right. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

**Becks19** · March 20th, 2012

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

- Lewis Mumford

**randallFlaggfan1** · March 20th, 2012

"The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass."

-Gabriel García Márquez

**Haunted** · March 21st, 2012

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~ Mark Overby

**randallFlaggfan1** · March 21st, 2012

“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude