Michael Winter Quotes

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

Political elections are not life and death.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

The worst of all worlds is to have some individual deciding who lives and who dies.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.