S.L. Wallace Quotes

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

Next to love is the desire for love.

I am what is around me.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

This early piece of the morning is mine.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

No place is a place until it has found its poet.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.

Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

Getting rich isn't about doing certain things. It's about doing things in the certain way!

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body."

There is no one more vicious on their own than conservative women on conservative women.

You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

The darkness has departed and the night stars have passed by, you have touched my life like never before and I cannot stop thanking God for you in my life. Have a great day!

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Every love story is a ghost story.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

There are not many things you can do to make the car go faster at some racetracks. What you got from the shop is just how you're going to race. It's really about strategy.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

I wish you way more than luck.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.