Al David Quotes

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

The Key to Staying Focused is to know what to Eliminate and then Doing so.

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

Set a clear focus in your life, and fear will be crowded out. The more you fix your eyes on God’s purpose for you, the more you will overcome your fear.

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.Mac orders, “Deb, stop!”Deb says, “It’s just a scratch. I’ll worry about it later.

Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.

I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.

As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.

She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.

You are so hot, ” I said.“How hot?” she asked, toying with the hem of the shirt.“Ionising radiation hot, ” I said. “Neutral pion decay hot.”Elena snorted. “You’re such a romantic, ” she said.

You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.

Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.

Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

Holly rubs her temples. “Are we talking ... vampires?”Arkady groans. “On, the V-word! Here it comes again.

Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.

You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.

The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded with it.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

Without "the people, " there is no country.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

I want to keep living in this beautiful dream-world of ours.

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?

Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...