Jeremy Fisher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  • I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  • I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  • I'm not a good guitar player.

  • The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

  • The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

  • When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

  • Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

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