Michael Scott Quotes

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play.

And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions!

What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

Leader. Ship. The word 'ship' is hidden inside the word 'leadership,' as its... derivation.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

There are some adventures not worth having.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.

Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

The secret to writing is writing. Lots of people I know talk about writing. They will tell me about the book they are going to write, or are thinking about writing, or may write some day in the future. And I know they will never do it. If someone is serious about writing, then they will sit down every day and put some words down on paper.

I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American?

When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory

I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!