Katie Grainger > Katie's Quotes

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.”
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts

“That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator.”
― David Koepp, Cold Storage

“Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.”
― Wilm Hosenfeld, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45

“You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly judge a person by their books.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls