2,332 quotes found
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
“Politic, cautious, and meticulous;full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse”
“God bless our good and gracious King,Whose promise none relies on;Who never said a foolish thing,Nor ever did a wise one.”
“(about Gideon's army)Like the pitchers that held the torches, our bodies are weak and fragile, yet they hold the fire of the Holy Spirit. That fire burns in us waiting to be released so that others...”
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
“If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me”
“Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!”
“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm...”
“Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of...”
“The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objectiv...”
“Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.”
“If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.”
“The sky is not the limit”
“All evil seems to arise from the desire to dominate others. Most men in our society are taught from a very early age to try to dominate. It isnt something that they think about consciously. It oper...”
“The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.”
“If I believe, truly believe our soulsare meant to cross paths, in each andevery life, traversing millennia and repeatingthis sweet interaction time and time againThen what is one lifetimewhere thos...”
“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tr...”
“The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.”
“Ive learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.”
