"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel."

“Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?”

“We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...”

“When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.”

“Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.”

“O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.”

“Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.”

“Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels.”

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”

Source : Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639