The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. - Vera Nazarian
The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer. - Vera Nazarian
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. - Vera Nazarian
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying? - Vera Nazarian
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer. - Vera Nazarian
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian
Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! - Vera Nazarian
Every story needs to be worth telling. - Vera Nazarian
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth. - Vera Nazarian