El James Quotes

#1. But who then was he? What could his own self really consist of? He bent over that self in order to peer into it, but all he could find was the reflection of himself bending over himself to peer into that self ... Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera

#2. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd; And I myself see not the bottom of it.

William Shakespeare

#3. I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

Stephen Chbosky

#4. Holy shit, I think I brought home some cannibal savant or something. Rain Man with a taste for people. Great?

Jake Bible

#5. The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#6. Always speak the truth.

George Washington

#7. Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the
old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops
into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do
when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays-
I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

James N. Frey

#8. Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings ... if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.

Italo Calvino

#9. Drawing up my knees, I fold in on myself. I want to make myself as small as possible. Perhaps this nonsensical pain will be smaller the smaller I am. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous.

E.L. James

#10. And once he had got really drunk on wine,
Then he would speak no language but Latin.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#11. You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers.

Christian Grey

#12. Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

James Russell Lowell

#13. Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Bryce Courtenay

#14. Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.

James Thurber

#15. It's a gift, Anastasia. Can you just say thank you?"
"But you know it's too much."
"Not to me it isn't, not for my peace of mind".

E.L. James