top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."
Standard
Customized
More
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Beware the hobby that eats."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
Ambition
"Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully."
Society
"This is why you use imagery when writing about sex, it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion."
Art
"Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace."
Life
"So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS."
Entertainment
"Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your father?"No. I remember yours."
Parenting
"Don't go overboard in avoiding "said. Basically, "said is the default for dialogue, and a good thing, too; it's an invisible word that doesn't draw attention to itself."
Writing
"For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you I have no name."
Affection
"When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman."
Romance
"Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids."
Relationship
bottom of page