Elides Crossword Quotes

#1. The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

Cal Hubbard

#2. All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas

#3. Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#4. You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

Victor LaValle

#5. Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

Larry Niven

#6. There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

Will Self