Bookcase Bed Quotes

#1. Don't be afraid to show your soul, we need plenty of soul to show in this world.

Jay Woodman

#2. For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

#3. skate across the icy sea of oilcloth between me and the bookcase. I kneel up in bed and put on Rob's coat. Its thick, stiff wool is becoming supple again from the heat of my body night after night. I put the sleeve to my face and

Helen Dunmore

#4. The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Wendell Berry

#5. He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

A. E. Hotchner

#6. Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine subscription: month by month.

Philip K. Dick

#7. It's hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.

Les Brown

#8. One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.

Ruth Reichl

#9. To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Byron Katie

#10. I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

David Antin

#11. It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

Kelly Lynch