Ember Fire Goddess > Ember's Quotes

“Right, she remembered. They don't know yet that I'm Important. They don't realize that soon everyone will know my name, or that I can save them from so many horrible things.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

“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.”
― Meg Cabot

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“It was sort of difficult to rage-fly on the power of hating HiveWings when there were two HiveWings flying right alongside her, being extremely noisy and distracting”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Poison Jungle

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Tsunami whirled to glare at Starflight, her gills pulsing. “Say that to my face.” “I am saying it to your face,” he said. “Or was I saying it to your rear end? It’s easy to get the two confused.” He ducked behind Clay before Tsunami could even bare her teeth at him. “Hey, stop. Quit snarling at each other like mini Kestrels,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Dragonet Prophecy

“Coconut,” he whispered. “Um. Would you please go hit my grandfather?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“Let’s see those claws,” said Albatross. Fathom held out his front talons and Albatross inspected them, one side and then the other, as though he were selecting a pair of precisely matched emeralds. “Hmmm, yes, very interesting,” Albatross said. “This talon definitely has more power than that one.” “It does?” Fathom said with awe, stretching it out so the sunlight shone through the webs between his claws. “Oh, clearly,” said Albatross. “Can’t you tell?” Fathom nodded thoughtfully. “I — yes — of course, it’s more — more tingly, like —” He caught the mischievous expression on his grandfather’s face. “Wait a minute. You’re messing with me!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Let’s go bother Clearsight!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“Pro tip: do not make SexySciFi your password. And definitely don't tape it under your tablet so you won't forget.

Also: don't be an idiot jerkwad.

Meaning: don't be Bruce.”
― Devon Hughes, Escape from Lion's Head

“Yer it gave me comfort to know the wolves would keep our fallen in their thoughts. That somewhere, in a land of ice and flames, the memory of my family lived on.”
― Inbali Iserles, The Mage

“For friendship. For honor. Forever”
― Inbali Iserles, The Mage

“Sundew tugged the scarf a little higher up Bumblebee’s neck. “Our turn, little bug. Stay very still and do NOT distract me, understand?” “Ooobeegoo,” Bumblebee said sternly. She patted Sundew’s face. “Do NOBBY splamflamp.” “I wasn’t planning on being splamflamp,” Sundew retorted, “whatever that is.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Poison Jungle

“Run fast, be safe, live free.”
― Inbali Iserles, The Mage

“Eep,” Bumblebee said in an even smaller voice. “Beebuf?” “Get off my face,” Sundew snapped. “CAREFULLY. I am REALLY MAD AT YOU.” “Beebeebeebeebeebuf,” Bumblebee protested, wiggling down until she was hanging from Sundew’s snout with her tail around Sundew’s neck. She managed to scoot herself back into the sling and leaned into Sundew’s chest, patting her heart under the jade frog. “Meesnugoo.” “Goo is right,” Sundew said, studying their abductor. She was stuck on one of the towering leaves of a plant that sprawled across a small island in the lake below her. The leaf was bright lime green, with hundreds of thin red stalks poking out of it that made the entire plant look fuzzily scarlet from afar. At the tip of each stalk was a glistening drop, like a translucent murder pearl.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Poison Jungle

“And also because there’s a dragon there who I’m definitely not thinking about and certainly do not think about all the time.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Poison Jungle

“Not another boring diplomatic meeting.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“One of her daughters sneezed, someone alert the chefs we need a cake! It’s kind of exhausting.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“I had never thought of school as fun before, but then, I'd never before had a hummingbird, a witch, or a maybe-immortal for teachers.”
― Laurence Yep, A Dragon's Guide to Making Your Human Smarter

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”
― Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt