Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKY Early summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence” which is,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image