Famous quotes by Writers

"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"A great speech is literature"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Let's cause some senators distress"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Love each other or die"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I listen to music constantly while writing"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

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