Eventful Year Quotes

#1. I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. There lay the real danger; for the energy they devoted to fighting the disease made them all the more liable to it.

Albert Camus

#3. But I have a gut feeling on this and it's not the oh-look-it's-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

Zadie Smith

#5. And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.

John D'Agata

#6. Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Jandy Nelson

#7. Despite all the ways she'd messed up in life, she must've somehow gained God's favor anyway.

Karen Kingsbury

#8. My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Paul Gleason