Gina Berriault famous quotes

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.
-- Gina Berriault

#Essence #Trying #Stories

It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.
-- Gina Berriault

#Water

One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.
-- Gina Berriault

#Beautiful #Dream #Moving

It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.
-- Gina Berriault

#Water #Knows

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!