John Collier Quotes

#1. Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Robert Farrar Capon

#2. I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Ellsworth Kelly

#3. How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?

John Collier

#4. I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.

Janna Cachola

#5. It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

Alvin Lee

#6. Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

Dirk Bogarde

#7. The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

Roberto Bolano

#8. Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.

John Collier

#9. Could we make it our own, there would be an eternally inexhaustible earth and a forever lasting peace.

John Collier

#10. Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

Guy Kawasaki

#11. I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will be to dodge the night watchman. Poets can dodge.

John Collier

#12. South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.

Charles Foster Johnson

#13. To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire.

Warsan Shire

#14. And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.

John Collier

#15. Let me love you, Ysolde. Let this happen. Since I was reborn, I have lived every moment in despair because I lost you. Let me worship you now as I've longed to do all those years.
Baltic, Love In The Time of Dragons

Katie MacAlister

#16. Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.

John Collier

#17. There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night.

John Collier

#18. When, I wondered, did every pregnant person get together and decide that Mama was the appropriate term to use? Why did having a baby turn these people into hillbillies?

Jennifer Close

#19. There is no delight the equal of dread

Clive Barker

#20. I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.

John Collier

#21. For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently.

Wilbur Smith

#22. She was looking at him from under level brows; her face was grave and open, and there had fallen upon it the shadow of that unreasoning responsibility which is at the bottom of the most frivolous woman, the maternal watch which is as old as the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. So if loyalty is impossible, what do I strive for?

Veronica Roth

#24. Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")

John Collier