Quotes

"When I'm writing I tend to avoid reading like the plague because you tend to pick up styles. The thing you dread is to open a book and find somebody's just done the idea you're working on."
-- Geraldine McCaughrean

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
-- Phillips Brooks

"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
-- Ray Bradbury

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
-- Ray Bradbury

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
-- Ray Bradbury

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things."
-- Ray Bradbury

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
-- Ray Bradbury

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Elliot

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."
-- Henry Ford

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-- William James

"My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands."
-- Martin Luther King

"That old law 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind."
-- Martin Luther King

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want."
-- Ben Stein

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not follow where the path may lead - go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Well you have to sweat a lot to make writing look effortless."
-- Clive James

"I'm an escapist kind of writer."
-- Maeve Binchy

"I'm as proud as anything to be called an airport novelist: how great that somebody should want to take one of my books as a companion on a journey."
-- Maeve Binchy