Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.
Quotes to Explore
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.
