Divisadero San Francisco Quotes

#1. Buy Fable! the book that rejuvenates your soul! makes your belly belly-laugh! turns your cares to dust! ... likewise your moods, woes an wounds! ... turns everything rosy, deflates spleen and bile! pocondria! not just any old work! not just any old words! Fable!
You gotta be categorical.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#2. The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

Nancy Kress

#3. Hey, this was rugby, not that daft game with the round ball.

J.L. Merrow

#4. I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

Brad Herzog

#5. Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

#6. I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his ...

Malcolm X

#7. This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

George F. Richards

#8. The dead" we say as if speaking
of "the people" who
gave up on making history
simply to get through
Something dense and null groan
without echo underground
and owl-voiced I cry Who
are these dead people these
lovers who if ever did
listen no longer answer
: We :

Adrienne Rich

#9. One part of my consciousness serves only one realm.

Toba Beta

#10. How well do we really know anyone? We only know what people are willing to reveal.

Don Lee

#11. Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Michael J. Fox

#12. There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

Jay Neugeboren

#13. When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

Kylie Minogue

#14. The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Tom Scholz

#15. Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

Stephen Covey