Erratos Quotes

#1. The feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.

Alice Meynell

#2. I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

J.K. Rowling

#3. There often is a dark secret in books ... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Anne Enright

#4. Life doesn't happen to me because I don't let it happen. I'm afraid it won't happen the only way I want it to happen: my way.

Carol Vorvain

#5. Get up to pray in the dark when all are asleep and see how your path is lit and your life begins to shine.

Mufti Ismail Menk

#6. Oh, I love you, June, I really do. It's just that you sounded so ... twat-ish just then.

Red Tash

#7. If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

Wendell Berry

#8. Oh, lady be good To me.

Ira Gershwin

#9. There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently.

Thomas Hardy

#10. A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift