Johanna Edwards quotes

“I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for when you wander the bookstore aisles, hoping to find something that will grab hold of you and not let go. Eloquent, haunting, and totally enthralling, I was swept in from page one.”
-- Johanna Edwards

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“Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.”
-- Johanna Edwards

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“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

“Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.”

“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”

“When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.”

“When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.”

Source : Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.245, Buddhist Publication Society

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan