Anchorite Monks Quotes

#1. It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Aimee Mullins

#2. More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.

Orrin Woodward

#3. I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Jonathan Kozol

#4. I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing ... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

Jorge Luis Borges

#5. Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.

Wendy Cope

#6. The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Marilyn Hacker

#7. Demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

Michelangelo Signorile