top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."
Relationship
"Rekindled love is generally short-term."
Love
"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was."
Work
"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
Reading
"I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns."
Life
"Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever."
Business
"I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Nature
"He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best."
Relationship
"Life was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."
Life
"They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other."
Relationship
bottom of page