Keck Quotes

#1. The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

Andrea M. Ghez

#2. The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

Dr. Seuss

#3. He is the English Horace,

Alexander Pope

#4. I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

Kevin Keck

#5. I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.

Kevin Keck

#6. What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.

Kevin Keck

#7. Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.

Kevin Keck

#8. Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.

Kevin Keck

#9. Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

Veronica Roth

#10. If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.

Kevin Keck

#11. That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.

Kevin Keck

#12. You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Kevin Keck

#13. In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I developed it without ever soliciting the advice of anyone else.

Kevin Keck

#14. I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as for readers - when I think about them I like to think they read the same books I do.

Kevin Keck

#15. Your only limitation is motivation

R.L. Keck

#16. Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?

Kevin Keck

#17. I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.

Kevin Keck

#18. Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

John Dryden

#19. 233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,

And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time

Derek Keck

#20. Eventually, you forget people. People forget you. That's the way it goes.

D.N. Joshi

#21. Not all battles can be fought in the light.

Jessica Khoury

#22. There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.

Dave Bristol

#23. Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.

Kevin Keck

#24. It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.

OMI