A. J. Burnett Quotes

Her affection for everything she could love increased.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

some people always have a touch of youth about them.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

People have never lost what they think they have.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

To young people the future is still long.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Never is a long word.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

We are always children to our mothers.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Before you can have a share of market, you must have a share of mind.

I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything.

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.

Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

No one's going to watch The Bible on primetime TV.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Bug eating and backstabbing are the stuff of great entertainment.

There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.