Goldbarth Quotes

#1. The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write ... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

Chris Van Allsburg

#2. I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Peter Morgan

#3. He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Things are not what they seem.

A.S. Byatt

#5. One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

Billy Graham

#7. Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

Albert Goldbarth

#8. Nothing really frustrates
me to the point of hatred.
It's not the worth the energy.

Georges St-Pierre

#9. Out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment
and love.

Anya Seton

#10. Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Ethan Hawke

#11. Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

Albert Goldbarth

#12. I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

J. Cole

#13. What's a kiss? The sound loneliness makes when it dies.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#14. If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise ... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.

Albert Goldbarth

#15. Talk to me. I'll believe anything.

Albert Goldbarth

#16. The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Emma Goldman

#17. I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.

Tia Mowry

#18. You're an absolute genius! I'm the best Daphne ever!"
"And so humble,too.

Kiersten White