Cynthia Voigt Quotes

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

Cynthia Voigt

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson
- Pain
- Gratitude
- Revenge
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Wallace Shawn
- Time
- Job
- Career
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

Sadie Jones
- Great
- Writing
- Trying
Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

Walter Kirn
- Up
- Good
- Bad
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Idris Elba
- You
- Mine
- Networking
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso
- Think
- Imagination
- Paint