Author Quotes

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.