The Memorable
Fate
Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all (Latin)
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
--Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
--Albert Camus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Ask any question you please of the gods. They do not have to answer."
--Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances (The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones)
"Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often."
--Alice, Dowager Duchess of Tamworth (Through A Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen)
"What I dream of is an art of balance."
--Henri Matisse
"Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were."
--Jules Renard
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
--Mae West
Faith
"I'm still an atheist, thank God."
--Luis Bunuel
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
--Richard Dawkins
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."
--Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with."
--Lisa Williams
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
--Frank Lloyd Wright
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
--Voltaire
Creation
"The definition of plot is: get your protagonist up a tree, throw rocks at her, throw bigger rocks at her, then get her down."
--unknown
"It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules."
--Eric A. Burns
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
--Rick Cook
"When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
--Desiderius Erasmus
"An artist is the only person who can hold two opposing points of view and still function."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth."
--Alan Garner
"Don't write what you know; write what you like."
--Jack Heffron (paraphrase)
"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
--Bell Hooks
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
--Thomas Mann
"At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet."
--Patricia A. McKillip
"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
--Toni Morrison
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
--Anais Nin
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
--Edwin Schlossberg
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
--Edith Sitwell
"The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals."
--Lionel Trilling
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
--Frank Zappa
Words
kith - kindred
nonplussed - stunned
paean - song of praise (PI-uhn)
sidereal - relating to the stars or constellations; (divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars
silhouette - outline filled with uniform color
snicker - smothered laugh
Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all (Latin)
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
--Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
--Albert Camus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Ask any question you please of the gods. They do not have to answer."
--Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances (The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones)
"Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often."
--Alice, Dowager Duchess of Tamworth (Through A Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen)
"What I dream of is an art of balance."
--Henri Matisse
"Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were."
--Jules Renard
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
--Mae West
Faith
"I'm still an atheist, thank God."
--Luis Bunuel
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
--Richard Dawkins
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."
--Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with."
--Lisa Williams
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
--Frank Lloyd Wright
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
--Voltaire
Creation
"The definition of plot is: get your protagonist up a tree, throw rocks at her, throw bigger rocks at her, then get her down."
--unknown
"It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules."
--Eric A. Burns
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
--Rick Cook
"When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
--Desiderius Erasmus
"An artist is the only person who can hold two opposing points of view and still function."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth."
--Alan Garner
"Don't write what you know; write what you like."
--Jack Heffron (paraphrase)
"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
--Bell Hooks
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
--Thomas Mann
"At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet."
--Patricia A. McKillip
"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
--Toni Morrison
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
--Anais Nin
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
--Edwin Schlossberg
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
--Edith Sitwell
"The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals."
--Lionel Trilling
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
--Frank Zappa
Words
kith - kindred
nonplussed - stunned
paean - song of praise (PI-uhn)
sidereal - relating to the stars or constellations; (divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars
silhouette - outline filled with uniform color
snicker - smothered laugh