CORNELIA FUNKE Quote

"Stories never end.  Even if the books like to pretend they do.  The stories always go on.  They don't end on the last page.  Any more than they begin on the first page." 

 - Cornelia Funke

PENNY MARSHALL Quotation

... "On stage you have to tie up the loose ends neatly and send the audience home with a resolution they like. In real life, as was evident, that's not easy.  I was familiar with indecision. My life was like a play in the midst of a rewrite.  But was that bad?  I didn't think so." ... - Penny Marshall



From "My Mother was Nuts", a memoir by Penny Marshall C 2012, new harvest Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt publishers, which I read and considered light reading over the holidays,  even though Penny covered some heavy topics in her humorously matter of fact way of seeing life.

IRVING STONE Quotation

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” Irving Stone (from Clarence Darrow for the Defense)

D. H. LAWRENCE quotation

"Nothing is more fatal than the disaster of too much love." - D.H. Lawrence

ROGER GRENIER Quotation on dogs

"Loving Dogs goes along, more or less, with despairing of humans." - Roger Grenier

MAXWELL ANDERSON quotation

(The story) must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person. - Maxwell Anderson

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotation

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
- Benjamin Franklin

GEORGE HERBERT Quotation

"The best mirror is an old friend." - George Herbert