Top 15 Holly Lisle Quotes (2024 Update)

Holly Lisle Quote: “If you don’t accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.”

1. “If you don’t accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.”

2. “Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “Adventures are only interesting once you’ve lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

3. “Adventures are only interesting once you’ve lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.”

4. “You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “Anything designed to be inoffensive isn’t worth your time – life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.”

5. “Anything designed to be inoffensive isn’t worth your time – life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.”

6. “Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.”

7. “The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.”

8. “Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you’re making excuses.”

9. “If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you’re making excuses.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places – a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.”

10. “A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places – a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.”

11. “This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.”

12. “I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book.”

13. “The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.”

14. “I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.”

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Holly Lisle Quote: “And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a writer an artist or move him above the writer hoi polloi any more than dressing entirely in black or wearing tweed jackets with leather elbow patches or big, black drover coats. These are all affectations, and smack of dilettantism. Real writers, and real artists, finish books and move on to the next project.”

15. “And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a writer an artist or move him above the writer hoi polloi any more than dressing entirely in black or wearing tweed jackets with leather elbow patches or big, black drover coats. These are all affectations, and smack of dilettantism. Real writers, and real artists, finish books and move on to the next project.”

— Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle Quote: “I had come to discover that “safe” was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let’s-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.”

16. “I had come to discover that “safe” was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let’s-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.”

— Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle Quote: “Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the hour that just causes collide, good men will rise up and leap into the fray, and the clash of their meeting will shake the heavens. And their blood will flow like rivers.”

17. “Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the hour that just causes collide, good men will rise up and leap into the fray, and the clash of their meeting will shake the heavens. And their blood will flow like rivers.”

— Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle Quote: “Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada’s search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.”

18. “Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada’s search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.”

— Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle Quote: “History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.”

19. “History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.”

— Holly Lisle

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