Susan Wiggs Quotes

I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.

You give up your dream, you give up.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.

One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.