Jean Little quotes

“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
-- Jean Little

Source : Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada

#Responsibility Quotes #Stories Quotes #Being True Quotes

“While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.”
-- Jean Little

Source : Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

#Dog Quotes #Eyebrows Quotes #Tails Quotes

“The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.”
-- Jean Little

#Dog Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Training Quotes

“you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.”
-- Jean Little

Source : Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

#Running Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.”
-- Jean Little

#Home Quotes #Doors Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”

“I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.”

“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”

“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”

Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.

“If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you...If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.”

“Some things are too terrible to be true.”

“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011

“At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.206, Knopf

“Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.”

“The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.”