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“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,†said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
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“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”
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“Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.”
Source : Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books
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“I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.”
Source : Marjorie Bowen (1951). “To Bed at Noon”
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“Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.”
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“How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!”
Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “Thelma: A Norwegian Princess”, p.161, The Floating Press
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“That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.”
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“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”
Source : Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.105, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
