Alvis Quotes

#1. When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.

Rory Delap

#2. This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel, America, a brash motion picture in technicolor ...

Jess Walter

#3. I guess I forgot we were going out tonight."
"We always go out on Fridays."
"It's Thursday, Alvis."
"You are so tied to routine.

Jess Walter

#4. Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Jane Addams

#5. Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means!" ~Alvis

Jess Walter

#6. The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis

Jess Walter

#7. If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#8. A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea."
"That's only three."
Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice.

Jess Walter

#9. To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

Simon R. Green

#10. Who is the public now that it has changed color?

Judy Baca

#11. Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Yusef Komunyakaa