Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[randallFlaggfan1]

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”

-Christopher Paolini, Eragon

[blunthead]

Big Tony sat down, lit a cigarette, ran a hand through his hair. ...the sentence may be flawed in a technical sense, but it's a good one in terms of the entire passage. Its brevity and telegraphic style vary the pace and keep the writing fresh. Suspense novelist Jonathan Kellerman uses this technique very successfully... It is possible to overuse the well-turned fragment...but frags can also work beautifully to streamline narration, create clear images, and create tension as well as to vary the prose-line. A series of grammatically correct proper sentences can stiffen that line, make it less pliable. Purists hate to hear that and will deny it to their dying breath, but it's true. Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story...to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. --Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[J.T. Adams]

"That's all drugs and alchohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end."

Ringo Starr

[kingzeppelin]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.


Winston Churchill

[Becks19]

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
- Eskimo proverb


Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley

[randallFlaggfan1]

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

-Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

[randallFlaggfan1]

“I hope this story provokes you as much as it provoked me to write it.”

-Bill Myers, The God Hater: A Novel

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”

-Richard Hughes

[kingzeppelin]

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on!


Winston Churchill

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn