Gillian Roberts quotes

“Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ...”
-- Gillian Roberts

Source : Gillian Roberts (2011). “Caught Dead in Philadelphia”, p.9, Untreed Reads

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“The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.”
-- Gillian Roberts

Source : Gillian Roberts (2014). “You Can Write a Mystery”, p.2, Untreed Reads

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“Writing time has to be created.”
-- Gillian Roberts

Source : Gillian Roberts (2014). “You Can Write a Mystery”, p.1, Untreed Reads

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“Why does everything always feel worse at night?”
-- Gillian Roberts

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“I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.”
-- Gillian Roberts

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“No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.”

“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.”

“My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.”

“the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.”

“Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”

Source : Alyson Noel (2010). “Blue Moon”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

“The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”

“Voter apathy is a civic abdication.”

Source : "We Should Be in a Rage" by Charles M. Blow, www.nytimes.com. April 9, 2014.

“HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.”

“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”

“I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.”