Cid Corman Quotes

#1. A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

Beth Ditto

#2. You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

Scott Lynch

#3. The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. ... Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

Cid Corman

#4. Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

Pat Conroy

#5. It isnt for want
of something to say
something to tell you
something you should know
but to detain you
keep you from going
feeling myself here
as long as you are
as long as you are

Cid Corman

#6. Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

Quinn Anderson

#7. I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine.

Prince William

#8. Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

Nick Lowe