Molly O'Keefe Quotes
Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I don't do negative things.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
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I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.
