"I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years."

-- Kevin Brockmeier

#Gratitude Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

Source : Richard Matheson (1978). “What dreams may come: a novel”, Putnam Publishing Group
“Dani said this woman, with whom sheâ€™d lived for two years, had never known her. â€œI feel like people accept the first thing I show them,â€ she said, â€œand thatâ€™s all I ever am to them.”
“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.”
“I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite sure what the magic recipe is, other than he just knows how to entertain an audience, and he knows when to be gooey and sweet, and when to be provocative and naughty.”
“Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.”
“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
“I'm actually even thinking of stealing the Walls of Jericho and turning in into the Walls of Miz.”
“For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.”

Source : Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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