E.L. James Quotes

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

O hasten, Lord, these promised days, When Israel shall rejoice, And Jew and Gentile join in praise, With one united voice!

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.

I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.