Malden Washington Quotes

#1. Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Travis J. Dahnke

#2. Art is as original and important as it is precisely because it does not start out with clear knowledge of what it means to say.

John Gardner

#3. The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

Jeff Smith

#4. If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

Romesh Gunesekera

#5. You don't get into magic ... Magic gets into you.

David Blaine

#6. We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

#7. When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.

Walter Isaacson

#8. It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body of America itself because it washes it up.

Jack Kerouac

#10. The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. It's better to experience love and loss than to never have at all.

Katherine Bogle