Drenda Witt Quotes

#1. And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Oscar Zeta Acosta

#2. I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future ... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating
units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
changes in the narrative-line.

Diane Wakoski

#4. My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

Sallyann Murphey

#5. Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Patti Smith

#6. Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

Ha Jin

#7. With a metal heart
I came to this life,
My head was a crucible, full of elixir.
Pearl by pearl
My heart was poured,
Drop by drop
My head was splashed.
The world was entirely a magnet.

Hersh Saeed

#8. You might say that when two Christians are following Christ together there is not twice as much Christianity as when they are apart, but sixteen times as much.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Story was a blessing and a curse. A reason to stay and a reason to leave.

J.A. Huss

#10. I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#11. There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'

Elise Andrew