Frankfurter Allgemeine Quotes

#1. The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Hakan Nesser

#2. Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

Marty Rubin

#3. Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Sara Zarr

#4. I'm a professional, goddamn it! I live in a car!

Bob Log III

#5. Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts?

Neal Shusterman

#6. Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Ann Brashares

#7. Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk.

Nick Cave

#8. What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Bo Burnham