Nicole Shepard > Nicole's Quotes

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
― Denis Diderot

“The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of drawing the world's attention to disasters in the making or being covered up. Such an important role is risky in more ways than one. It can expose the correspondent to actual physical danger; but there is also the moral danger of indulging in sensationalism and dehumanizing the sufferer. This danger immediately raises the question of the character and attitude of the correspondent, because the same qualities of mind which in the past separated a Conrad from a Livingstone, or a Gainsborough from the anonymous painter of Francis Williams, are still present and active in the world today. Perhaps this difference can best be put in one phrase: the presence or absence of respect for the human person.”
― Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”
― David Baldacci

“I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important. ”
― craig ferguson

“The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.”
― Dave Barry

“When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).”
― Stephen Colbert

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“With writing, we have second chances.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
― robert heinlein

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarell

“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
― Charles Bukowski

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Death is the reward for living”
― Sylvia Browne, Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife