"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."

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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Thought, Action, Doubt, Failure

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Thought, Thoughts, Beliefs, Path, Journey

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Tongue

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Thought, Freedom, Heresy, Word

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Thought, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Thought, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Doubt isn't original."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

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"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."

Choice

"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."

Fiction

"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."

Family

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

Past

"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."

History

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."

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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"Doubt isn't original."

Explore more quotes by Penelope Lively

"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."

"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."

"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."

"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."

"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."

"You learn a lot, writing fiction."

"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."

"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."