Nancy Springer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.”
-- Nancy Springer

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“I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”
-- Nancy Springer

Source : Nancy Springer (2009). “The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.44, Penguin

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“Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”
-- Nancy Springer

Source : Nancy Springer (2008). “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

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“what's life without a spice of stupidity”
-- Nancy Springer

Source : Nancy Springer (2003). “Outlaw Princess of Sherwood”, p.23, Penguin

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“I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”

“When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights”

“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.”

“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”

“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

“To conform is to lose your soul”

Source : Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.202, Hachette UK

“God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.”

“I just don't conform very well.”