Elizabeth Moon Quotes

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Change
  • Master

• Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • World
  • High
  • Success

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Long
  • Language
  • Voice

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Film
  • Standing
  • Representing

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

  

  Fred Allen
  • People
  • Done

• I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
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