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Quotes by Novelist
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
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"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
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"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."
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"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
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"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
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"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
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"Ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one stage of our lives into the next, making sure we don't stumble or lose ourselves along the way. Ceremony and ritual march us carefully right through the center of our deepest fears about change."
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"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones."
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"Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doingmy best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me intoif I were ever on the verge of death--plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."
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"If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for student, as a father, mother, he will be better than the teacher, who read all the books, but has no love for the cause, nor to the students. If the teacher combines love to the cause and to his disciples, he is the perfect teacher."
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"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."
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"There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler."
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"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
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"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."
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"It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast."
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"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim."
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"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten"."
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"If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try."
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"I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. "Katniss, I said aloud. It's the plant I was named for. And I heard my father's voice joking, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve."
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"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
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"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
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"Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores."
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