187 Quotes by Florence King

Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.

Familiarity breeds democracry.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

It takes only one child to raze a village.

agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ...

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.