Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[kingzeppelin]

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.


Henry David Thoreau

[blunthead]

Pace is the speed at which your narrative unfolds. There is a kind of unspoken (hence undefended and unexamined) belief in publishing circles that the most commercially successful stories and novels are fast-paced. I guess the underlying thought is that people have so many things to do today, and are so easily distracted from the printed word, that you'll lose them unless you become a kind of short-order cook, serving up sizzling burgers, fries, and eggs over easy just as fast as you can.

Like so many unexamined beliefs in the publishing business, this idea is largely bull[****]...which is why, when books like Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose or Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain suddenly break out of the pack and climb the best-seller lists, publishers and editors are astonished. I suspect that most of them ascribe these books' unexpected success to unpredictable and deplorable lapses into good taste on the part of the reading public.- Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[randallFlaggfan1]

'I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
~Woody Allen

Hi, Haunted-

Long time, no see. Welcome back! It's great to see you again!!


“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

- Robert Fulghum, True Love

[marleyboy4945]

Watched arguably my favorite movie ever a little bit ago and had to pull out this sequence of lines.

Doc: What did you ever want?
Wyatt: just to live a normal life
Doc: There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it.
Wyatt: Don't know how
Doc: Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty from it, don't look back. Live every second. Live right on to the end. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend, if ya ever had even the slightest of feelings for me, leave now. Leave now, please.
Wyatt: Thanks for always being there, Doc.

[kingzeppelin]

"Son, you're probably too young to look for wisdom in anyone's words but your own, but I'll tell you this: love is the enemy"
He nodded at me slowly. "Yes. The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.
Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry."
"What does it eat?" I asked, not aware I was going to ask anything at all. Every part of me but my mouth thought the entire conversation insane.
"Friendship," George Lebay said. "It eats friendship."


Stephen King. Christine.

[Haunted]

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Long time, no see. Welcome back! It's great to see you again!!


“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

- Robert Fulghum, True Love

[mjs9153]

"When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad,all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.." Euripides

[blunthead]

I got my first agent, Maurice Crain, courtesy of my sophomore comp teacher, the noted regional short story writer Edwin M Holmes. After reading a couple of my stories in Eh-77 (a comp class emphasizing fiction), Professor Holmes asked Crain if he would look at a selection of my work. Crain agreed, but we never had much of an association--he was in his eighties, unwell, and died shortly after our first correspondence. I can only hope it wasn't my initial batch of stories that killed him. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[Haunted]

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married!”
~Mae West

[kingzeppelin]

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman