"You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are."
Francesca Lia Block
"I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur."
Rick Yancey
"What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us."
Alexandra Fuller
"Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood."
Ernest Hemingway
"Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?"
Louise Penny
"As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it."
Anonymous
"I'm very quiet. In the beginning, my brother would play the piano, and I would sing, because that's what my mom and dad did. And then along the way, somebody teased me for even thinking that I could get up there. That stayed with me, and I became very shy."
Tyka Nelson
"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."
Lang Leav
"What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself."
Paul Theroux
"Remember sixteen – when all the world was new and a lifetime stretched before you like fresh snow just waiting for your footprints?"
Peggy Toney Horton
"I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world."
Leslie Daniels
"I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff."
Bobby Lee
"Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast."
C.M. Rayne
"To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest."
Amit Kalantri
"Reinvent Yourself.Redesign Yourself.Reform Yourself.Restore Yourself.And if something is left of you till thenAppreciate Yourself."
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