Bukowski Esque Quotes

#1. How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.

Justin Young

#2. As they emerged into the sunlight, Guinevere's breath caught in her throat. There were more than a thousand men gathered on the green in front of her. "Mother of God," the abbeys said, "there's an army at my door.

S. Alexander O'Keefe

#3. Colour can raise the dead.

Iris Apfel

#4. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

Frank James

#5. I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

George R R Martin

#6. My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Etgar Keret

#7. His favourite entertainments were intellectual rather than social; he went to public lectures and visited the observatory, the theatre and the opera. 'Tragedy excites the soul,' he later told one of his secretaries, 'lifts the heart, can and ought to create heroes.'24

Andrew Roberts

#8. ...I'd like to know what you want out of life."
"I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.

Anita Higman

#9. I'd be foolish not to take some of opportunities that are coming my way. We all know this can go away at any moment.

Kim Kardashian

#10. I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.

Stephen Sommers