Edson Quotes

#1. Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

David Adams Richards

#2. Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Pele

#3. Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them.

David James Duncan

#4. Goodbye, Ellie Edson. It's been fun." "Fun Ellie is dead. All that's left is broke-and-alone Ellie," I teased. Tyler stopped. "She's not dead. Just transitioning. Like a butterfly." "That's deep, Maddox." "I've been deeper," he said with a smirk,

Jamie McGuire

#5. The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.

Lydia Davis

#6. I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

Pele

#7. Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

Pele

#8. It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

Margaret Edson

#9. If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Russell Edson

#10. It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work

Margaret Edson

#11. Joan Finch is tall and sickly thin. She is wearing a tight black dress that accentuates her bony legs, the crookedness of her body. She looks like a burnt matchstick.

Jerrod Edson

#12. There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.

Merritt A. Edson

#13. She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart.

Russell Edson

#14. Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

Margaret Edson

#15. The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

Merritt A. Edson

#16. There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.

Russell Edson

#17. I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper...

Jamie Edson

#18. My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

Margaret Edson

#19. Listen to the winds for the answers that you seek. Follow the sun for the destination of your dreams. If you get lost and are left all alone, follow the light of the moon and he'll guide you home..

Jamie Edson

#20. to take steps to avoid

J.T. Edson

#21. So Mr Brain opened his mouth to let a moonbeam into his head.

Russell Edson

#22. Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we might be happy. I am sure happiness is not too far away

Russell Edson

#23. Marketing is like sex - if you have to pay for it, you're doing something wrong

John Edson

#24. The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

Margaret Edson

#25. It is very difficult to stop feeling.

Russell Edson

#26. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Russell Edson

#27. One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.

Merritt A. Edson

#28. Creating New Worlds Through Imagination

Tabitha Edson

#29. You cannot imagine how time ... can be ... so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce.

Margaret Edson

#30. As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.

Russell Edson