#she

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#am #army #i #i am #led

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#being #cast #constrained #fantasy #genre

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#destiny #fulfilling #our #refusing #them

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #prefer #shelter #tend

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. ↗

— George Byron

#away #cervantes #chivalry #country #demolished

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#book #breathing #character #her #i

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. ↗

— Greg Egan

#get #i #i think #need #new

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#discovering #done #duplication #established #half

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half. ↗

— William E. Geist

#been #brown #could #dollar #first-class

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#conception #cross #having #lack #living