To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w...
GEORGE R. HENDRICK True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w...
GEORGE R. HENDRICK Obviously, they've got to remake themselves; obviously, they've got to make themselves relevant in a...
GEORGE R. SANSOUCY Consumers have an insatiable appetite for celebrity news. It's pretty amazing.
GEORGE R. SANSOUCY the original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road u...
GEORGE R. STEWART Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.
GEORGE R. STEWART Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence...
GEORGE R. ROBERTS The billboards ruin everything. The historical flavor, the old-time architecture, even the beauty of...
GEORGE R. STEWART That's the type of cooperation that will be needed over the balance of the year to get through the d...
GEORGE R. JUNCKER We are seeing a lot of good, cooperative efforts.
GEORGE R. JUNCKER In my own mind I find that I can also classify highways advantageously as dominating, equal, or domi...
GEORGE R. STEWART In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.
STEPHEN R. GEORGE There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring ...
SEBASTIAN BACH One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because y...
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.
RICHARD BACH You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work...
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is ...
RICHARD BACH Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
RICHARD BACH Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will kno...
RICHARD BACH Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already t...
RICHARD BACH Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anyt...
RICHARD BACH The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.
RICHARD BACH Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our l...
RICHARD BACH Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior's Manual
RICHARD BACH Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
RICHARD BACH A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsi...
RICHARD BACH The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is r...
RICHARD BACH You teach best what you most need to learn.
RICHARD BACH Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
RICHARD BACH Real love stories never have endings.
RICHARD BACH You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to...
RICHARD BACH How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
RICHARD BACH Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
RICHARD BACH All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy ...
RICHARD BACH That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've chan...
RICHARD BACH Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again...
RICHARD BACH Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, ...
RICHARD BACH Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
RICHARD BACH In order to win, you must expect to win.
RICHARD BACH The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Whe...
RICHARD BACH You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diam...
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choo...
RICHARD BACH To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
JOHN BACH We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding ...
RICHARD BACH To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have alr...
RICHARD BACH An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevert...
RICHARD BACH Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
RICHARD BACH A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
RICHARD BACH I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way abo...
RICHARD BACH Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you cho...
RICHARD BACH Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -Richard Bach.
RICHARD BACH The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let any...
RICHARD BACH In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
RICHARD BACH There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster
RICHARD BACH ...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right pe...
RICHARD BACH You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to wor...
RICHARD BACH The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you...
RICHARD BACH You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diam...
RICHARD BACH A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship ...
RICHARD BACH Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've crea...
RICHARD BACH Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting agai...
RICHARD BACH Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
RICHARD BACH Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, l...
RICHARD BACH There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary i...
RICHARD BACH A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
RICHARD BACH Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you...
RICHARD BACH You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are ...
RICHARD BACH Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we ...
RICHARD BACH True love stories never have endings.
RICHARD BACH If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they neve...
RICHARD BACH You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to ...
RICHARD BACH Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
RICHARD BACH In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
RICHARD BACH The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's...
RICHARD BACH What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
RICHARD BACH Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
SEBASTIAN BACH To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
RICHARD BACH Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
RICHARD BACH I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
SEBASTIAN BACH I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I ...
CATHERINE BACH They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their frie...
SEBASTIAN BACH Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports.
HOWARD BACH The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
RICHARD BACH A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a rel...
KING BACH I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was goi...
KING BACH To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
RICHARD BACH I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
SEBASTIAN BACH Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
RICHARD BACH My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want t...
JILLIAN BACH I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Too...
SEBASTIAN BACH I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic r...
SEBASTIAN BACH Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There...
SEBASTIAN BACH We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we ...
RICHARD BACH The simplest things are often the truest.
RICHARD BACH Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
SEBASTIAN BACH Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choo...
RICHARD BACH Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anythin...
RICHARD BACH There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
RICHARD BACH Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understand...
RICHARD BACH Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
RICHARD BACH The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. ...
RICHARD BACH True love stories never have endings
RICHARD BACH The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
RICHARD BACH Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
RICHARD BACH The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others lif...
RICHARD BACH Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.
RICHARD BACH The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know
RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two ball...
RICHARD BACH Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve...
RICHARD BACH Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
RICHARD BACH Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
RICHARD BACH Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from th...
RICHARD BACH Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or...
RICHARD BACH I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record de...
SEBASTIAN BACH The key part of the deal is enabling online gaming.
ROBERT BACH Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and ne...
EDWARD BACH Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated e...
EDWARD BACH If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are ...
RICHARD BACH Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to l...
RICHARD BACH I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketche...
KING BACH Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
RICHARD BACH There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show...
RICHARD BACH Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
RICHARD BACH A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impuls...
RICHARD BACH Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you alr...
RICHARD BACH Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
RICHARD BACH No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine ...
RICHARD BACH If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it...
RICHARD BACH If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
RICHARD BACH I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
SEBASTIAN BACH That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end...
RICHARD BACH You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
RICHARD BACH Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I...
RICHARD BACH I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sud...
KING BACH I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
SEBASTIAN BACH It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
SEBASTIAN BACH Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
SEBASTIAN BACH