Better Quotes

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.