"You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best."
Kate Atkinson
"When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking."
James Howard Kunstler
"Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?"
Chang-rae Lee
"Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends."
Ron Chernow
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Peter F. Drucker
"Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read."
John Connolly
"A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure."
Dorothea Lange
"Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts."
Ahmed Mayouf
"Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us."
Charlotte Featherstone
"With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards."
Frederick Buechner
"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships."
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