Nancy Thayer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Inspirational #Too Late #Fiction
The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Uplifting #Believe #Serendipity
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
-- Nancy Thayer

#Baby #Motherhood #Pleasure
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Broken Heart #Girl #Boys
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Serious #Meaning Of Life #Each Day
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Light #Wind #Sea
It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Real #Too Late #Stories
You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Life #Beach #World
Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.
-- Nancy Thayer

#Love #Husband #Fall

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
I have come too late into a world too old.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Nancy Thayer famous quotes

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