18 quotes found
“We make our own destiny.”
“I felt dead and sick inside.”
“I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.”
“It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall”
“The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.”
“I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.”
“Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.”
“Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it is thought of...”
“Fast reading of a great novel will get us the plot. It will get us names, a shadowy idea of characters, a sketch of settings. It will not get us subtleties, small differentiations, depth of emotion...”
“I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on pa...”
“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window....”
“I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...”
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of fo...”
“I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.”
“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness, such refreshment. Close your eyes. Breathe in a...”
“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..”
“It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it...”
“Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...”
