Rhonda McCormack > Rhonda's Quotes

“I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing.”
― Ursula Nordstrom, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
― George Colman the Younger, Broad Grins

“Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“To enjoy the journey is to give until the stretch is a sacrifice. The question always is: what is it in life that will pull you out of your seat to be brave, risk and serve?”
― Janie Jasin, The Littlest Christmas Tree

“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
― Alice Mackenzie Swaim

“What is it about a hand that seems quintessentially human? The answer must, at some level, be that the hand is a visible connection between us; it is a signature for who we are and what we can attain. Our ability to grasp, to build, and to make our thoughts real lies inside this complex of bones, nerves, and vessels.”
― Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

“...its treasures, as I love them, are imprinted in my memory; and if they are wrongly memorized--a lily where there are tulips, the boy's torn hat rakish at the wrong angle--then this only makes the pictures more mine.”
― Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Reading for writers is like training for athletes.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.”
― Harlan Ellison

“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”
― Melinda Haynes

“You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we need to get through life," she said. "You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“When you're unsure of yourself," she said, "when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she's the one inside saying, 'Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.' She's the power inside you, you understand?" ~August Boatwright”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Goods and chattel. The words from the leather book came into my head. We were like the gold leaf mirror and the horse saddle. Not full-fledged people. I didn't believe this, never had believed it a day of my life, but if you listen to white folks long enough, some sad, beat-down part of you starts to wonder. All that pride about what we were worth left me then. For the first time, I felt the hurt and shame of just being who I was. After a while, I went down to the cellar. When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”
― Sue Monk Kidd (Author)

“Dear, dear," Ivan said, eyebrow raised. "So this is what Kansas looks like.”
― Meg Rosoff, Just in Case