William Nicholson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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#1. There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. – Author: William Nicholson
#2. Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him. – Author: William Nicholson
#3. When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. – Author: William Nicholson
#4. We read to know we’re not alone. – Author: William Nicholson
#5. I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me. – Author: William Nicholson
#6. Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. – Manth Vow – Author: William Nicholson
#7. Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast. – Author: William Nicholson
#8. Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel. – Author: William Nicholson
#9. We write to know we are not alone – Author: William Nicholson
#10. If you die, I’ll die.’ ‘But is you live, I’ll live.’ – Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong – Author: William Nicholson
#11. He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control. – Author: William Nicholson
#12. Jack. What you said about endings. – Author: William Nicholson
#13. God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. – Author: William Nicholson
#14. I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it. – Author: William Nicholson
#15. The sun isow behind the grey-green trees. And all the farm grows quiet by degrees. Among their many lessons this is best: the animals know when and how to rest! – Author: William Nicholson
#16. I have no future,’ said Hanno. ‘I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman. – Author: William Nicholson
#17. There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don’t merit being treated seriously and with compassion. – Author: William Nicholson
#18. My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. – Author: William Nicholson
#19. The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad. – Author: William Nicholson
#20. We are the slaves of slaves – Author: William Nicholson
#21. It is better,” says Eckhard, “to look at the wall. You look at the wall, you have your own thoughts. You look at he TV, you have the thoughts of the state. – Author: William Nicholson
#22. A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. – Author: William Nicholson
#23. We read to know that we are not alone. – Author: William Nicholson
#24. Why should I be honored? Don’t I have enough attention, comfort and power already? – Author: William Nicholson
#25. Use your power gently. – Author: William Nicholson
#26. To put it another way, pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well. – Author: William Nicholson