Atlases Maps Quotes

#1. Nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

Seneca The Younger

#2. No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.

W.G. Sebald

#3. He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

Jadakiss

#5. People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

Joan Larkin

#6. Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real.

Brenda Rothert

#7. Never allow the opinions of other people defined your state of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. He could think no longer; he leaned against his shadow. The silence within the slab of ancient stone eased through him; his thoughts, worn meaningless, became quiet again.

Patricia A. McKillip

#9. Our listeners asked us:
"What is chaos?"
We're answering:
"We do not comment on economic policy.

John Vaillant

#10. I am a blank, here, between parentheses. Between other people.

Margaret Atwood

#11. With every line I write I kill off the "artist" in me. With every line it is either murder in the first degree or suicide. I do not want to give hope to others, nor to inspire others. If we knew what it meant to be inspired we would not inspire. We would simply be.

Henry Miller

#12. Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a little differently in an ideal shape which haunts the brain when we least expect it.

Virginia Woolf

#13. For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

Edward Rutherfurd

#14. Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Frank Oski