Category: writer
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
Stephen King
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
H. P. Lovecraft
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.
Alice Walker