Every accepted public quote

“To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.”

“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of...”

“I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion...”

“I am a frighteningly thorough person.”

“If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a m...”

“What does not destroy me, makes me strong.”

“It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”

“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another wor...”

“If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will be a good ending,”

“My Internet presence was definitely bigger than the music. I'm so good at marketing, so once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music. I knew what I was doing - it was premedita...”

“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”

“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”

“Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.”

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

“Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.”

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”

“I would always want printed books.”

“The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.”

“And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream wi...”

“She would be quite bright, if she was ever put in a position to find out, but long ago found that being a scatterbrain, as she'd put it, give you an easier journey through life.”

“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”

“I think you loved me And I loved you But we never really did At the same time.”

“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.”

“Proverbs are not just meant for recalling and proffering but to impart practical wisdom which will impact on our actions.”

“I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary piec...”

“I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.”

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”

“What do you say that we forget the past, forget all that we have been before, forget the future even, and we simply look to the here and now? Isn't that all we ever have in the end?”

“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”

“I thought... that we could at least talk about books.”

“I lingered round them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could...”

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”

“When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.”

“It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.”

“We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.”

“To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.”

“Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.”

“Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.”

“So just because the world ends, you can't dress fancy?”

“As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.”

“I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.”

“If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.”

“I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.”

“There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.”

“Men at some time are masters of their fates.”

“Keep up the fight against the wobble , no matter what the cost.”

“There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die...”

“I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk abo...”