We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” If there isn't that pleasure for a writer, maybe he ought to be a philosopher.
Our favorite quotations from Southern authors are words strung together, saved in amber on the page, that survive to inspire and challenge us whenever we happen upon them. Everything.”“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”“One place understood helps us understand all places better”“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything.
That doesn't happen much, though.”
(Evelyn Waugh, The New York Times, November 19, 1950) Creating Words Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. William Faulkner
“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book.
William Faulkner Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”“Baseball fans love numbers.
And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar.
The mind can never break off from the journey.”“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas that have lasted thousands of years, or just since the most recent Harry Potter.”“It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.”“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch.
(Willa Cather, On Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art, 1953) Carson McCullers
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Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.