Susan Wiggs Quotes

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

Susan Wiggs

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• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Mom

• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Important
  • Heart

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Heart
  • First
  • Box

• No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Boy

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Fun

• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Confidence

• Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in? Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger –- we were strangers once, too.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Scripture

• Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  

  Edward Young
  • Heart
  • Heaven

• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Proud
  • Story
  • Idea

• Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Heart
  • Broken

• Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

  

  Harold Lloyd Jenkins
  • Heart
  • Advice

• All the circuit training, it's cardio circuit training, so everything you're doing, you're still running up your heart rate. You're burning, I think, triple the amount of calories than if you were just weight lifting.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Running

• I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'm a huge fan of James Taylor and know all his songs, too. My dad told me that if I ever met Taylor Swift, I had to tell her that I know every James Taylor song. We started naming albums, and we were both shouting them out.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • She
  • Song
  • Dad

• A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless - it can be passed on to future generations.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Fun
  • Future
  • Perfect

• Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run; all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

  

  African Spir
  • Disappear
  • Contradiction

• The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Blurred

• Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life
  • Control
  • Practice

• Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Heart
  • Story
  • Melt