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Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the..."
And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jack Vance quote: "I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It..."
I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory. Jack Vance
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten. Jan Morris
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath. Stevie Smith
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars. Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels. To where the ink and all you grieving. Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl. Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With... Boris Pasternak
Your darkest enemy is the one who bows you down to the floor like a servant and wastes half your life in meaningless rituals. This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery. Orson Scott Card
The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. "I've got to go back, haven't I?" "That is up to you." "I've got a choice?" "Oh yes." Dumbledore smiled at him. "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let's say…board a train." "And where would it take me?" "On," said Dumbledore simply. J. K. Rowling
Charles Bukowski quote: "Dying should come easy: like a freight train youdon't hear..."
Dying should come easy: like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned. Charles Bukowski
If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases. Willa Cather
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them William Gass
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic. Ted Hughes
Dashiell Hammett quote: "He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan."
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan. Dashiell Hammett
great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper. good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am deadit means I made it. Charles Bukowski
Virginia Woolf quote: "I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be..."
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. Virginia Woolf
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels. Henry Miller

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