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You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool. Augusten Burroughs
Stephen King quote: "I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet."
I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet. Stephen King
George R. R. Martin quote: "Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like..."
Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear George R. R. Martin
The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that comprise it, the origin of those actions, is diffuse and is associated with various morbid sensations. Rather like a dream. Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the other hand, surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man: it only shows me what an... C. S. Lewis
Nothing I have witnessed, from lava to crustacean, assailed me liked the caked debris haunting that small plastic soap hammock in the smaller of the bathrooms. Nausea is not a sufficient word. Werner Herzog
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. Alan Watts
Steven Wright quote: "always remember your unique, just like everone else"
always remember your unique, just like everone else Steven Wright
I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom. Jodi Picoult
Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away. Michael Chabon
Sylvia Plath quote: "I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't..."
I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. Sylvia Plath
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. Charles Bukowski
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "A house without books is like a body without soul."
A house without books is like a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Emile Zola quote: "Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to..."
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong! Emile Zola
Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own? A. Whitney Brown

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