Daniel Wallace Quotations

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Dreams are what keep a man going.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They’re magical people. They have special power.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

The ending is always a surprise.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I'd murdered my family, that'd be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah's defense (of Frey) just doesn't work. You can't say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It's cheating.

Publishers have always had a hard time selling and marketing the single, short-form work. Amazon.com has created a new way for authors to get that kind of work out there, which is incredibly exciting.

It's important for the schools to make sure they new hires are of the quality they want. It's one more thing we can do to make parents feel safe leaving their children with these teachers.