But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
Anthony DoerrQuotes currently Trending
![Aleksander Kwasniewski quote: "There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and..."](/pic/66348/600x316/quotation-aleksander-kwasniewski-there-is-simply-no-room-for.jpg)
Let the old Muse loosen her stays. Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders. And a smile like a cat, With false eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine. And dressed by Schiaparelli, with a pill-box hat.... Give me a houri but houris are too easy, Give me a nun; We'll rape the angels off the golden reredos. Before we're done.
Louis MacNeice
![John Hall quote: "I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom -..."](/pic/118112/600x316/quotation-john-hall-i-would-hope-to-inspire-in-my-listeners-a-feeling-of.jpg)
![William Shakespeare quote: "Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may..."](/pic/360378/600x316/quotation-william-shakespeare-make-thee-another-self-for-love-of-me-that.jpg)
![Thomas Merton quote: "Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes..."](/pic/233213/600x316/quotation-thomas-merton-prayer-and-love-are-learned-in-the-hour-when.jpg)
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
Arthur Schopenhauer