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When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few dead bodies. But these bodies are basically plot points, not worked-out characters. The book's plot either moves inexorably toward a dead body of flows directly from it, and the more artificial the situation the better. Readers can play off their fears by encountering the death experience in a superficial way. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the... Don DeLillo
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand..."
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and... Charlotte Bronte
Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? Anne Rice
Plato quote: "The direction in which education starts a man will determine..."
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life Plato
What's with the serum?"I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..."Or a joke."Precisely. Arty type...No principles... William S. Burroughs
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth. Charles Darwin
And he misses her........Like a wind starved sail. He sits knowing what direction to go. But the current keeps pulling him Down river. Rumi
Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy.” In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us. Paulo Coelho
Fernando Pessoa quote: "What's attacking me now is a direct humanitarianism ..."
What's attacking me now is a direct humanitarianism ... Fernando Pessoa
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. Hunter S. Thompson
Get down! Get down!"The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. The survivors, instead of getting down, tried to go back to the small square, and the panic became a dragon's tail as one compact wave ran against another which was moving in the opposite direction, towards the other dragon's tail in the street across the way, where the machine guns were firing without cease. They were penned in, swirling about in a gigantic whirlwind that little by little was... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And I was already on my way to being a true freak because I knew I would always choose to go where my blood beats, in any and all directions. Bell Hooks
Lao Tzu quote: "The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to..."
The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long. Lao Tzu
In the morning when Mrs. Pollifax awoke she realized at once that a fateful day was beginning. She lay and thought about this dispassionately, almost wonderingly, because to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one's hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God. There was nothing to do but accept, and from this to proceed, doing the very best that could be done. Dorothy Gilman

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