Martone Quotes

#1. Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

Michael Martone

#2. I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Anna Deavere Smith

#3. There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

John L. Lewis

#6. For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Terry Eagleton

#7. Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.

R.J. Ellory

#8. In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.

Michael Martone

#9. Thy silence, then that voices thee.

Herman Melville

#10. I respect people. For me to say 'hate' was a bad word, and I didn't mean to use it.

Tim Hardaway

#11. The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own.

Norman Mailer

#12. Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren't human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read?

Rawi Hage

#14. Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.

Xavier Rudd

#15. Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

W.G. Sebald

#16. You can go as far as your thoughts takes you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Mrs. Plutarski is such a pill to me. You'd think I
routinely crapped on the altar, the way she treats me.

Kristan Higgins