Eyvind Johnson Quotes

#1. In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

Eyvind Johnson

#2. From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Eyvind Johnson

#3. I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Bette Midler

#4. Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

Eyvind Johnson

#5. A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

Rachel Simon

#6. Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life ... harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world.

Michael Crummey

#7. The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Criss Jami

#8. And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Eyvind Johnson

#9. A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Eyvind Johnson

#10. A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

Eyvind Johnson

#11. I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

Paul Scholes

#12. I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

Donald Ray Pollock