Chris Offutt Quotes

#1. I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

Chris Offutt

#2. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Ed O'Neill

#3. Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish. Within

Chris Offutt

#4. The secret is to start a story near the ending.

Chris Offutt

#5. Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Dan Millman

#6. It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

Natasha Lyonne

#7. She has impossibly high standards.'
'So do you.'
'Yeah, well, not impossibly high. Someone did come along who meets them.'
'Your problem is thinking no one else ever will.

Eric Lindstrom

#8. I'd forced myself to interact with so much pornography, I no longer regarded my wife in a sexual manner. Each time I tried, my mind filled with images of fetish porn. I could admire her dress, legs and hips, but the response was aesthetic and intellectual, as if studying art I couldn't afford.

Chris Offutt

#9. Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

Ann B. Davis

#11. The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

Andrew Jackson

#12. The desktop held a patina of hieroglyphs representing years of student boredom - names and initials gouged into the wood, blackened by grime and pencil, shellacked over, then cobwebbed again with another generation's imprint.

Chris Offutt

#13. Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

Chris Offutt

#14. Most grandiose gestures are suspect - the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab. Building

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#15. I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself.

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#16. The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.

George R R Martin

#17. Powered by orgasms is so much better then be powered by instagrams

Jimy Time

#18. He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave.

Chris Offutt

#19. When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night.

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#20. Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

David Kelley

#21. If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I have the wrong verb so I'm attempting to cheat and modify the wrong verb by using an adverb.

Chris Offutt

#22. it occurred to him that time didn't move forward as he'd always thought. People move through time instead.

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#23. Time piles up like brush. You burn it in the fall and all you remember are the glowing cinders. I got ash heaps everywhere I look. -Old of the Moon

Chris Offutt