“I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
Archive for the Quotes Category
“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
“There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”
— A Christmas Carol
“Forgotten but not gone
You drink it off your mind
You talk about the world
Like it’s someplace that you’ve been”
— Broadway
“Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
“We’re at the heart of the issue. The difference between fiction writers and civilians is that we make it our life’s work to put our daydreams and day-nightmares on paper. Most of the time, we don’t understand the secrets and demons that our spontaneous imaginations contain. All we feel is that there’s something in us demanding to be released in the form of a story.”
— Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing
“I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes”
— Changes
“We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.”
