Every accepted public quote

“The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a...”

“***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.”

“It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter...”

“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”

“Difficulty is what we authorize it to be. Press forward.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”

“I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.”

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”

“Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.”

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”

“There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”

“Paper is more patient than man.”

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“It's weird that some people are famous overnight, and others have to wait several years.”

“We are all alone, trapped in the bodies and our own minds and whatever company we have is only fleeting and superficial.”

“I am the freest author in the world.”

“Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.”

“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”

“Besides death of a loved one, adversity enhances character and augments wisdom more than any other trial; adversity challenges our will, requires strategic thinking through arduous stretches...”

“I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it t...”

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, E...”

“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do you bear it?' Finnick looks at me in disbelief. 'I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I d...”

“Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.”

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

“She is alone. And oh how brilliantly she shines.”

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”

“If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I...”

“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”

“Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.”

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our...”

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”