Writing Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image ““If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.”” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.” — Shelagh Delaney Copy Share Image
“It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“She's very intelligent and she often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I lied. I lied. I lied. I lied deliberately, knowingly, well. She lied. She is a liar. She is an intellectual too! She is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
“If she was lying to me, the lie would surface eventually. They always did. Usually families lied out of some misguided belief that it… — Tim Weaver Copy Share Image
“But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“She knew when she was being deceived and she couldn't imagine she'd become so confused about reality that she would lose her life or… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“She could tell people what to do and sound authoritative, even if underneath it all was a fear of being discovered, found out, a… — Fiona Davis Copy Share Image
“I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image