Elmer Kelton Quotes

#1. I just write whenever I can.

Elmer Kelton

#2. Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Ernest Dimnet

#3. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

Elmer Kelton

#4. Reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be preserved by the bishop into the midst of the evil of the world.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. you just wanted her to say, "I know what that's like." But of course, she can't say that, will never say that. And if she ever could then you could no longer be with her. Then you would both be tired. Then she would be a better friend, but a worse lover.

Nic Kelman

#6. A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

Elmer Kelton

#7. A bad habit or two is good for a man or a beast. Did you ever know a man who didn't have any bad habits? I have, and I always hated the son of a bitch." -- Charlie Flagg

Elmer Kelton

#8. Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down ... The writing is superb.

Elmer Kelton

#9. Haie looked round once again and said wrathfully, satisfied and rather mysteriously: Revenge is black-pudding.

Erich Maria Remarque

#10. How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?

Vanna Bonta

#11. That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares.

Cristiane Serruya

#12. The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

Kevin DeYoung

#13. I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.

Elmer Kelton

#14. As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

Christine Downing