Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Jean M. Auel

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Georges Clemenceau

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come

Thomas Carlyle

The windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

John Milius

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Decouvertes

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Saint Stephen

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

Sara Blakely

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

Bob Dylan

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

Ben Stiller

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Maxwell Maltz